2»« S. IX. Jan. 7. '60.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



17 



" Bocardo. 

 The Priso- 

 ners. 



It is singular that no reference is made to this 

 in Ingram's Memorials. 



Warton's couplet from the Newsman's Verses 

 for 1772 has already been given. The following 

 note is appended to the couplet in The Oxford 

 Sausage : — 



" Bocardo. The City Gaol, &c. taken down by the 

 Oxford Paving Act." 



Bocardo is also mentioned in the same book, in 

 The Castle Barbers Soliloquy, 1760. 



In the rare Latin poem Oxonium Poema, 1667 

 (from which I quoted the description of Old 

 Mother Louse, of Louse Hall, 2 nd S. vii. 404.) 

 the author passes from Baliol College, and thus 

 speaks of Bocardo : — 



"Jame pete Bocardi Turres, Portasque 

 patentes, 

 Atque obolutn (si forte tenes) da dives 

 egenis." 



He then describes Carfax Conduit and church, 

 (" Carfaxe quasi qziatrevois") and thus refers to 

 the Castle : — 



"A tergo stat cum. veteri Vetus aggere 

 CutieH and t Castrum. 



TJ>e Gallows. Xec procul Line furca est, Fines et 

 scorta cavete." 



ClJTHBERT BEDE. 



Spoon Inscription (2 nd S. viii. 512.) — Although 

 your correspondent does not ask for an explana- 

 tion of the inscription upon the spoon, one cannot 

 answer his inquiry — " whether it is probable that 

 this spoon was used in the rite of baptism?" — 

 without attempting to ascertain what the inscrip- 

 tion means, crabbed as it is. It consists of Ger- 

 man mixed with Latin, and runs thus : — 



" AX. XO. 1GG9. 



DASBLVT . ESV. CHIIST . GOTESSOHI . DEEMS. 



GVXSREIS VOXSLLEX SVIDEX 



CHIIST TVML. BSBEX. ASTF. ALBES SER 

 DEXA'LEXS. WASSEX." 



This, verbally divided, and reduced to ordinary 

 type, becomes — 



" An. no. | 1669. 



Das | Blut. | esu | Christ. Gotes | Sohn der | ma 



g | uns | rein | von | alien | Sunden. | 



Christ turn | 1. baben. | ast | f. al | bes ser | 



den | alens. | Wassen." 



That is : — 



" Anno 1609. 



Das Blut Jesu Cbristi, Gottes Sohn, der ma- 



cht uns rein von alien Sunden. (See 1 John i. 7., Luther's 



Version.) 



Christum liebhaben ist fiel besser 



den aliens Wasehen." 



This, certainly, is not very first-rate German ; 

 but it may be thus rendered : — 



" Anno 1669. 

 " The blood of Jesus Christ, the Son of God, makes us 

 clean from all sin. 



" To love Christ is better than all washing." 



" Den " (denn) is an old Ger. form of " dann," 



than, now " als" : just as in old Eng. than was 

 occasionally spelt then. 



It seems very probable that the spoon may have 

 been either a baptismal gift, or in some way or 

 other connected with the rite of baptism. 



Without an opportunity of inspecting the "head 

 with long flowing wig," one can hardly venture 

 to conjecture whom or what it represents. 



Hone, in his Every Day Book, Jan. 2-5., de- 

 scribes an old practice at christenings of present- 

 ing spoons called Apostle-spoons, the full number 

 being twelve. Persons who could not afford this 

 gave a smaller number, or even a single spoon 

 with the figure of the saint after whom the child 

 was named, or to whom the child was dedicated, 

 or who was the patron saint of the donor. 



Thomas Bors. 



Mrs. Myddletox's Portrait (2 nd S. viii. 377. 

 423.) — A highly respectable tradesman of this 

 city has in his possession a portrait of Mrs. Myd- 

 dleton. It was originally in the possession of the 

 late Sir Edward Hales, Bart., of Hales Place, near 

 this city. It is a half-length, and has every ap- 

 pearance of being authentic. The lady wears a 

 pearl necklace, and is habited in a low dress of 

 crimson, with white or yellow. The hair is in 

 small curls. John Brent, Jun. 



Canterbury. 



Lingard's "England :" Edinburgh and Quar- 

 terly Reviewers (2 nd S. viii. 469.) — The two 

 articles on Dr. Lingard's History of England, in 

 the Edinburgh Review, were written by John (not 

 TF.) Allen. This is acknowledged by himself in 

 his "Reply to Dr. Lingard's Vindication, in a 

 Letter to Francis Jeffrey, Esq., London, 1827," 

 in these terms : — 



" I have never made a secret of my being the author 

 of the two articles in the Edinburgh Review on Dr. Lin- 

 gard's History of England." 



In an account of John Allen, published in 

 Knight's English Cyclopaedia, he is said to have 

 taken a degree in medicine at Edinburgh in 1791. 

 In 1795 he published " Illustrations of Mr. Hume's 

 Essay concerning Liberty and Necessity." Forty- 

 one articles in the Edinburgh Review are attri- 

 buted to him on subjects chiefly connected with 

 the British constitution, and with French and 

 Spanish history. The earliest article on constitu- 

 tional subjects attributed to him is that on the 

 Regency question, May, 1811. In the number 

 for June, 1816, he is said to have written an ela- 

 borate essay on the constitution of Parliament. 

 The latest article which he is supposed to have 

 contributed to the Review is that on church rates, 

 October, 1839. He wrote the "History of Europe" 

 in the Annual Register for 1 806 ; and in 1 820, a 

 " Biographical Sketch of Mr. Fox." In 1830, he 

 published an " Inquiry into the Rise and Growth 

 of the Royal Prerogative in England;" and in 



