2« d S. IX. Jan. 21. '60.] 



NOTES AND QUEEIES. 



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Lucky Stones (2 nd S. viii. 267.) — There is no 

 mystery about " lucky stones." They are gene- 

 rally composed of flint, and come mostly from 

 the chalk districts. When flint is in a fluid state, 

 its particles have a mutual attraction for each 

 other, whereby they will aggregate into lumps. 

 This has been frequently proved by artificial ex- 

 periment. When the fluid flint was originally 

 disseminated through the chalk, it gradually ag- 

 gregated into such nodules or irregular figures as 

 the crevices in the chalk favoured. Flint nodule3 

 are of the most varied and fantastical forms. In 

 the case of " lucky stones " the flint merely col- 

 lected round something softer than itself, which 

 afterwards decayed out or wore out, and conse- 

 quently left a hole. P. Hutchinson. 



Sir Humphry (or Humfrey) Lynde (or 

 Lind) (2 Dd S. ix. 13.)— Sir H. Lynde was author of 

 Via Tula and Via Devia (Prynne's Canterburies 

 Doome, pp. 168. 170. 185.). He was a friend 

 of Simon Birckbeck's (Birckbeck's Prolestanfs 

 Evidence, 1657 ; Preface, § 1.). He is noticed by 

 Duport (Musa> Snbsecivcc, p. 20.). Notices of the 

 controversy at his house may be seen in a letter to 

 Joseph Mead, printed in the very useful but ill- 

 edited collection known as Birch's Court and 

 Times of James I. (Bond., 1849, vol. ii. p. 408.) ; 

 and in a letter of John Chamberlain's to Sir D. 

 Carleton (July 12, 1623, S. P. O.) One Humphry 

 Lynd, curate of Maidstone, is mentioned by Le 

 Neve {Protestant Bishops, vol. i. part i. p. 206.). 



J. E. B. Mayor. 



St. John's College, Cambridge. 



John Lloyd (or Floyd) toe Jesuit (2 nd S. 

 ix. 13.) — Of John Floyd, alias Daniel a Jesu, 

 alias Hermannus Loemelius, alias Geo. White, 

 some account may be seen in Berington's Memoirs 

 of Panzani, pp. 124—126. 



It is so hard to identify members of a perse- 

 cuted sect, forced to assume a succession of dis- 

 guises, that I add the following references, with- 

 out venturing to affirm that they refer to the 

 fame person as Panzani. 



One Lloydj a dangerous Jesuit, occurs in 

 Prynne's Canterburies Doome, p. 453. ; Lloyd, 

 alias lien. Smith, a Jesuit", ibid. p. 449. ; one Hen. 

 Loyd, or Flud, alias Frns. Smith, alias Rivers, 

 alias Simons, provincial of the Jesuits, ibid. pp. 

 448-4.;o. J.E.B. Mayor. 



St. John's College, Cambridge. 



Heraldic (2 ,d S. viii. 531.) — The armorial 

 bearings on the impalement mentioned by P. 

 Hutchinson may possibly be intended for the 

 name of Batty or Baltic, as they somewhat re- 

 semble the coat granted to Battie of Wadworth 

 and Warmsworth, Yorkshire, viz. a chevron be- 

 tween three goats passant, on a chief a demi- 

 savage, or woodman, holding a club over his 

 shoulder, between two cinquefoila. C. J. 



The " Misers" of Quentin Matsys (2 nd S. 

 viii. 469.) — The Query respecting the Misers of 

 this artist, suggests another Query I have long 

 thought of asking, namely, on what authority 

 are the personages represented in the picture 

 styled misers at all ? They appear to me to be 

 two merchants looking over their books. Every- 

 thing about the room betokens neatness and 

 order ; both men are well-dressed in the burgher 

 costume of the time ; and certainly the face of 

 the man nearest to the spectator is pleasing in 

 expression, and bears no trace of a miserly or 

 churlish disposition. 



I last saw the picture at the Manchester Ex- 

 hibition, and could not get near enough to read 

 the entries in the book they are looking over ; but 

 I saw that it was an account-book, and if any 

 person familiar with Flemish, and with the cur- 

 rent hand of the time, will take the trouble to 

 read the entries, some light may be thrown upon 

 the subject of the picture, and possibly some clue 

 may be obtained towards identifying the persons 

 represented. J. Dixon. 



Shakspeare's Cliff called Hay Cliff (2 nd 

 S. viii. 79.) — The poor people for some miles round 

 still call it Hay Cliff, i.e. the High Cliff. So in 

 West Dorset Hawkchurch is called by the people 

 Hay Church, i.e. the church on the high eround. 



'o. r. l. 



Henry Smith (2 nd S. viii. 254.) — I am able to 

 supply the missing words of the title-page of the 

 edition of Henry Smith's Sermons to which Mr. 

 Bingham refers (" N. & Q." p. 331.) They are 



as follows : — 



" At London : Imprinted by Felix Kyngston for 

 Thomas Man, dwelling in Pater-noster Row at the signe 

 of the Talbot. 1611." 



My copy has the whole of the " Questions" at 

 p. 54. to which Mr. Bingham refers. Should the 

 book be republished, I shall have much pleasure 

 in placing my copy at the disposal of the Editor. 



C J. Elliott. 



Winkfield Vicarage. 



_ Bishops Elect (2 nd S. viii. 431.) —The junior 

 bishop never being a member of the House of Peers, 

 cannot, of course, take his seat before his consecra- 

 tion ; but I much doubt whether, even under the 

 old system — that is, before the creation of the see 

 of Manchester — any bishop elect only could have 

 so taken his seat ; as the bishops surely sit in the 

 House as Spiritual Peers, and could not come 

 under that denomination until entitled to it by 

 the act of consecration. J. S. S. 



" Prugit (?)" (2 nd S. ix. 4.) —As prugit docs 

 not accord, in tense, with the verbs which follow 

 (furaverit, occiiJcrit), Du Cange suspects that the 

 passage, as it stands, is corrupt ; and therefore for 

 " Si quis bisontcm, bubaluin, vel cervum prugit, 



