2="» S. VI. 103., Dec. 4. '58.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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Edinburgh), Noble BritisJi Families, and in the 

 Vestiarium Scoiicum by John and Charles Edward 

 Stuart. Derivations of " Spynie " and " Lossie" 

 are given in the old Statistical Account, which is 

 in some respects preferable to the new. 



Sholto Macduff. 



Summary of the Decalogue (2"'^ S. vi. 406) — 

 The version of Arthui; Johnston's Summary of the 

 Decalogue induces rce to offer one I have long 

 had lying by me, without thinking it of sufficient 

 interest to attract notice. I observe your corre- 

 spondent speaks of " Strahan's edition of John- 

 ston's Psalms, A.D. 1741." It is remarkable that 

 I should possess another copy of a London edition 

 of the satrie date, by different publishers, in small 

 octavo, and not very " beautifully printed." The 

 paper and type are good, but of no superior ex- 

 cellence; the impress is "Londini, apud W. Innys, 

 D. Browne, et Paul Yaillant, Bibliop., Typhis 

 Gul. Bowyer, mdccxli." * On the first page of 

 letter-press is a very well-executed vignette, with 

 '• H. Holbein insc." in the corner, representing 

 Henry VIII. in a reclining posture, having a 

 sword in one hand and globe in the other, with 

 a trunk of a wide-spreading tree springing from 

 his body, and over his head "Ilenricus VIII. Rex 

 Angl. et Franc." 



I submit to the judgment of your readers my 

 attempt to approach (I could not equal) the 

 pointed condensation of the original. A. J. ap- 

 pears to me, in tlie 2r.d and 4tli line, to amplify 

 the sense without necessity : — 



" Me solum venerave Deum ; nee sculpe qnod oras : 

 Impia nee vox sit ; Luce quiesce sacra : 

 Majores reverenter babe ; nee sanguine dextram 



Inficc ; nee sancti pollue jura tori. 

 Pnra manus furti : sit falsi nescia lingua : 

 Xullius optetur vcrna, marita, pecus." 



" Worship to God — but not God graven — pay ; 

 Blaspbeme not; sanctify the Sabbath day; 

 Be honour'd parents ; brother's blood unshed ; 



And unpolluted hold the marriage bed ; 

 From theft thy hand — thy tongue from lying — keep; 

 Xor covet neighbour's home, spouse, serf, ox, sheep." 



A. B. Rowan. 

 In my native town of Dundee there was, in the 

 time of my youth, extant within a large timber- 

 yard on the lower side of the Seagate, and nearly 

 opposite to the antique and fragmentary remains 

 of the famous Culdee chapel of St. Paul's, a large 

 stone which formed the " lintel " of the door of a 

 shed, on which a compressed Decalogue is sculp- 

 tured in two compartments, under date 1593, 

 thus : — 



" 15. 1. Thov . sal . haif . no . vther . Goddis . hot . me . 2. 

 Thov . sal . vorschip . no . gravine . imago . 3. Thov. sal . not . 

 svear . 4. Kemember . To . Keip . Holy . The . Saboithe . 

 dav . 5. Honvr . Thy . Father . and . Mother . C. Thov . 

 sal . not . slave . 7. Thov . sal . not . coniit . adoltere . 8. 

 'I'hov . sal . liot . sfealc . 9. Thov . sal . bear . no . fals . 



[• See Nichols's Anecdotes of Wiliiam Bowyer, p. 152.] 



vitnes . 10. Thov . sal . cowit . no . thing . y' . is . ygj . 

 nichbouris. 93." • 



This inscription is in relief, and the space be- 

 tween the compartments is occupied by a figure 

 in clerical costume, the left arm resting upon one 

 of the compartments, the right extended and 

 pointing to the Decalogue. The lower part of 

 this figure was covered with an escutcheon, on 

 which there had been a cypher, of which an f and 

 an M remained. Query, can any local archa?o- 

 logist say what has become of this interesting 

 stone, or suggest whose was the cypher? — proba- 

 bly a bishop of the episcopal regime ? 



Dundee also boasts of a rhythmical compression 

 of the Decalogue by the celebrated author of the 

 Childrens Catechism, Dr. Willison, superior to 

 your correspondent J. L.'s, but so current and 

 popular that the first four lines only need be 

 quoted : — ■ 



" Have thou no other Gods but me; 

 Unto no idol bow thy "knee ; 

 Take not the name of God in vain ; 

 Do not the Sabbath day profane," &c. 



Sholto Macduff. 



" Poems oflsis," " Life and Death," (2-^ S. vi. 

 374.) — I think J. W. IT. has made a slight mis- 

 take in the name : the verses alluded to are from 

 Poems hy Isa {\\m. Blackwood & Sons, 18.56), 

 and are entitled " Going out and coming in." The 

 Poems ly Isa were reviewed in Chambers's Jour- 

 nal (vol. vi. p. 239.) ; and the reviewer states they 

 are "interesting from being the production of 

 leisure hours — hours stolen from sleep after a 

 day spent by the young and simple-minded au- 

 thoress in the dreary, monotonous, and ill-requited 

 labours of a sempstress." Isa was first discovered 

 by the worthy proprietor of The Scotsman, " and 

 is a gentle, modest, simple, genuine Scottish 

 lassie." J- Dillon. 



The Battle of Birmingham (2"'^ S. vi. 412.) —A 

 graphic sketch of this battle appeared in the valu- 

 able "Hints for a History of Birmingham," pub- 

 lished in the Birmingham Journal a year or two 

 ago. The writer would probably be able to give 

 Mr. Gctcii the information he requires. Who is 

 the present possessor of the original Iracfs, re- 

 printed a few years ago, and now referred to by 

 Mr. Gutch ? Is there more than one copy of the 

 original ? The Journal writer quotes from the 

 Mercurius Busticus, but had apparently other au- 

 thorities for the quotations he gives. Este. 



Birmingham. 



Books and Articles printed for Sir Thomas 

 Phillipps, Bart., betiveen 1817 and 1858 (2"<' S. vi. 

 389.) — As this list contains many valuable and 

 interesting papers on various subjects, perhaps F. 

 would kindly state whether such printed papers 

 can be purchased, and the price ? Individual 

 access for reference may not be always possible. 



