2n* s. VI. 154., Dec. li. '580 NOTES AND QUERIES. 



489 



by wiiose kindness I was enabled to have it for 

 some time. Mr. Defray also left another MS. 

 which I Lave not seen, consisting possibly of ser- 

 mons. E. M. 

 Oxford. 



Payment of M. P.'s (2"" S. vi. 79.)— Among 

 the ancient corporation accounts of Bodmin are 

 the following curious items relating to the elec- 

 tion of members of parliament and the payment 

 of their wages in the reign of Henry VII. 



" 19th and 20th Hen. vij., Paide to Richard Watts 

 and John Snivth, burgesses of the parliament for the 

 towne, 13s. Ad." 



" Paide for the endentes for the burgesses of the par- 

 liament, -lOd." 



" Paide and yeven in Jlalmesey to the under-sheryff, 

 4d." 



" Paide for the makyng a payr of endentes and an 

 obHjiation, 12d." 



" Item. Paide and geuea vnto Thomas Trote in re- 

 warde, 20d." 



" Item. Paide to Sir Richard Downa, the wich was 

 promi'sed by the maier and the worshipful! in a rewarde 

 towardes Ids wagys. 13s. id." — Lysons' Mag. Brit. 



John Maclean. 

 Hammersmith. 



Testament of (he Tivelce Patriarchs (2"* S. vi. 

 351.) — " Slaubar sauces." Slobber is a word 

 pretty well known in (infants') nurseries. Shak- 

 speare, I think, speaks of an ingredient in witches' 

 mixtures to " make the gruel thick and slab." I 

 have heard "clobber" used (by Irish people) for 

 stifEsh mud, such as would just scrape off a road. 

 The adjective slab is translated in my German dic- 

 tionary by hleherig. Clobber is therefore more 

 likely to come from this root than to be a version 

 of slobber. 



" Buttles." The well-known Scotch term for 

 but and ben for an outer and inner apartment, is 

 supposed to be derived from be out and be in. 

 This may explain how Butts comes to signify " a 

 small piece of ground disjoined in any manner 

 from the adjacent lands." In this country, where 

 "runrig," or cultivation in alternate strips by 

 joint tenants, is still only too common, a sort of 

 small bank is often left between the ploughed 

 ridges, and on this any stones that may be lifted 

 by any unusually-enterprising cultivator of the ■ 

 adjoining strips are generally laid ; and there 

 weeds flourish secure from profane hands. These 

 stripsj whether regular or "excluded at an angle," 

 are, I believe, called " butts," or balks. These 

 also naturally serve as boundaries or landmarks ; 

 and " buttles " probably have the same origin. 



i. p. o. 



Argyllshire. 



Family of Wuhe (2"'i S. vi. 423.)— Will Ache 

 be kind enough to furnish the intermediate links 

 connecting Ilerewaldus le Wake with Emma, the 

 wife of Hugh Wac ? MELJiTOJs. 



Bacon's Essays (2°* S. vi. 408.) — Lord Bacon, 

 in his i^ssay on the Vicissitude of Things, after 

 describing the characteristics of the successive 

 ages of a state and of learning, proceeds thus : — 



" But it is not good to look too long upon these turning 

 wheels of vicissitude, lest we become giddy. As for the 

 philology of them, that is but a circle of tales, and there- 

 fore not lit for this writing." 



Your correspondent Eirionnach, after re- 

 marking that " there is a revolution and anam- 

 nesis [qu. ananeosis?] of history as of knowledKC," 

 inquires, what is "•the philology of the wheels of 

 vicissitude that is but a circle of tales ?" Bacon's 

 meaning seems to be that the philology or learning 

 of the successive changes in a commonwealth and 

 in literature and science, to which he has just ad- 

 verted, is a mere cycle of narratives, and there- 

 fore unfitted for a work such as his Essays. By a 

 " tale " he apparently means a " narrative," a 

 " historical relation," an " erzn/fftwg-." His mean- 

 ing therefore is, that to trace the origins and 

 causes of the changes in question is the business 

 of a historian, and not of an essayist like him- 

 self. L. 



" To ride the Roast" (2°'» S. iv. 152. ; vi. 338.) 

 — In military language at least "roster" is used 

 for a list showing turns for duty and the like. 

 My copy of Johnson's Dictionary (4th folio) does 

 not give this word. At roast, ruling the roast, 

 he suggests roisf, a tumult. He derives roast 

 from Lat. rastnmi, because it was broiling origin- 

 ally ; whilst he defines roasting as " dressing meat 

 by turning it round before the fire." Is a roster a 

 thing that has to do with turns f I. P. 0. 



Ai^yllshire. 



Lord George Gordon's Riots (2"* S. vi. 315.)— 

 Is it not probable that Samuel Rogers' " cartful 

 of young girls" were " on their way" to see an 

 execution "at Tyt)urn ? " J. N.'s '■'■seeing nine- 

 teen persons hanged at the same time " does not 

 appear so easy of explanation. I. P. O. 



Balm of Giliad (S-"" S. vi. 468.)— The Balm of 

 Gilead, or Gala ad, never, or very rarely, finds its 

 way to this country unadulterated. Indeed it is 

 so difBcult to obtain it at all, that Catholic bishops, 

 who require it for consecrating the most precious 

 of the holy oils, called Chrism, are permitted to 

 use instead of it the Balsam of Tolu, which it 

 closely resembles. F. C. H. 



Domenichino-s "Galatea" (2'"» S. v. 108.) — 

 Where has E. \V. read of this ? There is a " Ga- 

 latea" in the gallery of the Farnese Palace at 

 Rome ; but though some of the frescoes in the 

 same room are by Domenichino, the " Galatea" is, 

 I believe, by Annibalc Caracci. The "Galatea" 

 is in the Farnesina, but that is the work of Ra- 

 phael's own hand. W. T. 



