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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2 n <» S. IX. Jan. 28. '60. 



Othobon's Constitutions (2 nd S. viii. 632.) — 

 Perhaps it may not be amiss to add that Otho- 

 bonus was afterwards Pope, under the title of 

 Adrian V. His reign, however, was very short, 

 as he died one month and nine days after his 

 election, and before episcopal consecration. Some 

 years before the Council of London over which 

 he presided, that is circa an. 1252, he had been, 

 although a Genoese, Archdeacon of Canterbury. 

 He was well qualified, therefore, from his know- 

 ledge of the state of the English church, to direct 

 and control the deliberations of the Synod. It 

 is of some interest to know what popes had, pre- 

 viously to their wearing, the tiara, held church 

 preferment in England. There was one, for in- 

 stance, who was Bishop of Worcester ; at least, 

 appointed Administrator of the Diocese by a Bull 

 dated 31 July, 1521. This was Cardinal Julianus 

 de Medicis, afterwards Clement VH. 



If your correspondent will consult the Oxford 

 edition of Lyndwood's Provinciate, an. 1679, he 

 will not only find the Constitutions of Othobonus 

 annexed, but a very copious glossa by John de 

 Athona, alias John Acton. I have often mar- 

 velled why that same edition should have re- 

 ceived the University " imprimatur ; " for, al- 

 though there are undoubtedly many things suited 

 to the present state of things in England, yet a 

 great part as to doctrine, and a greater part as to 

 discipline, is applicable only to the times pre- 

 ceding the separation from Rome. Some things, 

 indeed, there are which not one of us, whether he 

 belongs to Rome or Canterbury, considers binding. 

 For example, what should we say of the following 

 strict injunction of one of the Constitutions of 

 Othobonus, " De habitu Clericorum ? " 



" Statuimus et districts praecipirnus, ut Clerici universi 

 vestes gerant non brevitatenimia ridiculosas et notandas, 

 sed saltern ultra tibiarum medium attingentes, aures 

 quoque patentes, crinibus non cobpertas, et Coronas ha- 

 beant probanda latitudine condecentes .... Nee, nisi in 

 itinerc constituti, unquam aut in ecclesiis, vel coram Prae- 

 latis suis, aut in conspectu communi homiuum, publice 

 infulas suas (vulgo Coyphas vocant) portare aliquatenus 

 audeant vel praesumant. Qui autem in Sacerdotio sunt, 

 qui etiam sunt Decani aut Archidiaconi, necnon omnes in 

 Dignitatibus constituti Curam animarum habentibus, 

 Cappas clausas deferant." 



John Williams. 



Arno's Court. 



Sympathetic Snails (2 ud S. viii. 503.)— I 

 remember reading on this subject a series of co'n- 

 munications which appeared in La Presse, a Paris 

 newspaper, a few years since. I am unable to 

 state the precise time, but think it was between 

 the years 1852 and 1856. J. Macbay. 



Scotch Clebgy depbived in 1689 (2 Dd S. viii. 

 329. 538.) — To the works mentioned by B. W. 

 add Lawson's History of the Scottish Episcopal 

 Church from the Revolution to the present Time, 

 8vo. Edinb. 1842. J. Macbay. 



Cxtbious Mabeiage (2 nd S. viii. 396.) — Such 

 public notifications as those mentioned by Mb. 

 Redmond were also customary in Scotland, as in 

 the following instances : — 



" Last week Mr. Graham, younger, of Dongalston, was 

 married to Miss Campbell of Skirving, a beautiful and 

 virtuous young lady." — Glasgow Courant (Newspaper), 

 Feb. 9, 1747. 



" On Monday last, Dr. Robert Hamilton, Professor of 

 Anatomy and Botany in the University of Glasgow, to 

 Miss Mally Baird, a beautiful young lady with a hand- 

 some fortune." — Ibid., May 4, 1747. 



" On Monday last, Mr. James Johnstone, Merchant in 

 this place, was married to Miss Peggy Newall, a young 

 ladv of great merit, and a fortune of 4000/." — Ibid., Aug. 

 3, 1747. 



An anecdote is current of an old Glasgow shop- 

 keeper who announced a large portion to each of his 

 daughters in the event of their marriage. The bait 

 took rapidly, but when it came to the paying part 

 of the business, he pled as his apology for non- 

 performance an inadvertency in having at that 

 time added the '■'■year of God" into the balance 

 sheet of his property as pounds sterling. G. N. 



Holding up the Hand (2 nd S. viii. 501.) — The 

 mode of making an affirmation, which Mb. Boys 

 says " is the oldest form of an oath recorded in 

 the Bible," is still practised in the United States 

 of America. The Members of Congress, when 

 they qualify for that office, are asked whether they 

 will swear or affirm their loyalty to the constitu- 

 tion and the laws of the country. Those who 

 swear, take the oaths in the English form ; those 

 who affirm, hold up the right hand, and bow in 

 assent, when the Speaker has repeated what they 

 are required to affirm. False affirmation is sub- 

 jected to the same penalties as perjury, and no 

 distinction is made in any of the courts of law be- 

 tween evidence taken either by oath or affirma- 

 tion. The President of the United States is 

 allowed to affirm if he chooses, instead of taking 

 the oath in the accustomed form, when he is in- 

 ducted into office. Pishey Thompson. 



Stoke Newington. 



Deeivation of Rip, " a Rake ob Libeb- 

 tine " (2 nd S. viii. 493.) — This is a terminal ab- 

 breviation (like 'bus from omnibus) of a word of 

 reproach very commonly used in the last century, 

 viz. demi-rep, meaning a person with half a repu- 

 tation. It may be classed with another slang 

 term current about the same time, — a demi- 

 fortune, which was applied to a carriage drawn by 

 a single horse, — long before the brougham was 

 invented, or found so generally useful. J. G. N. 



" My Eye and Betty Maetin" (2 nd S. viii. 491 .) 

 — The only origin I have ever heard ascribed to 

 this phrase is, that it is derived from a monkish 

 form of expression, " Mihi et Beati Martini." In 

 the same spirit I have heard the expression, 

 " Lets sing old Rose, and burn the bellows," de» 



