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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2»'i S. IX. Feb. 4. 'CO. 



nearly coincided with the execution of the Earl 

 in 1322. the popular tradition confounded one 

 Thomas with the other, and St. Thomas of Here- 

 ford -was in the ideas of the northerns St. Thomas 

 of Lancaster. I give this as merely my own 

 speculation. 



Perhaps it may be appropriate in conclusion to 

 quote the words of Edward I. in his first letter 

 to the Pope, urging the canonisation of Thomas. 

 He thus describes his character : — 



" Thomas, dietus de Cantihipo, Ecelesias quondam 

 Herefordensis Antistes, qui nobili exortus prosapia, dum 

 carnis clausus carcere tenebatur, pauper spiritu, mente 

 mitis, justitiam sitieus, misericordiaj deditus, mnndus 

 corde, vere pacilicns." (Rymer, ii. 972.) 



He then proceeds to speak of the miracles 

 performed. This was written in 1303; but it 

 was not till after repeated appeals to Rome by 

 Edward II., which may be seen in Iiyrner, vol. 

 iii., that the desired canonisation was obtained, 

 to the great joy of the English Church and 

 nation. John Williams. 



Arnu's Court. 



iHtlTOT $att$. 



What's in a Name. — The following anec- 

 dote shows how the French laugh at the Re- 

 publican ideal, and if not true, is at least ben 

 trovato : — 



Under the Bepublique Franchise the titles of 

 nobility were of course abolished with the prefix 

 du or de; farther, the saints were abolished; 

 farther, the names of the months were abolished. 

 Figurez-vous the arrival of a French nobleman, 

 well disposed to the government of the day, at the 

 bureau for some certificate or other document; 

 the following colloquy ensues : — Official. 

 " What name ? " — Gentleman. " Monsieur le 

 Comte du Saint Janvier!" Off. " Quoi? "--Re- 

 petition. — Off. " No Monsieur now." — Gent. 

 " Well, le Comte du Saint Janvier." — Off. 

 (wrathfully) " No counts." — Gent. "Pardon; 

 du Saint Janvier." — - Off. " Sacre bleu, no dus. 

 Gent. " Saint Janvier." — Off. (with a roar) 

 "No saints here!" — Gent, (wishing to be con- 

 ciliatory) " Citoyen Janvier." — Off. " Look at 

 ordonnance, cy no Janvier now." — Gent. " Mais, 

 must have a name ; what shall I call myself." — 

 Off. " 'Cre nom. Citoyen Nivoise J " — grand 

 crash. — Liberte, Egalite, Fratcrnite. 



C. D. Lamont. 



Fish, called Sprot. — The following Note may 

 be interesting : — 



" 2G«- is-'- received from four London boats, called 'Stale- 

 botes ' fishing in tbe waters of Thames for Fish called 

 ' Sprot ' between the aforesaid Tower and the Sea from 

 Michaelmas in the 2 nd year to Michaelmas in the 3 rd year 

 of King Edward 2 nd for one year during the season, to 

 wit, of each boat Os. Sd. by ancient custom belonging to 

 the aforesaid Tower." — Accounts of John de Crumbewell, 



late Constable of the Tower of London. Brit. Mus. Add. 

 MS. 15,664. f. iol''. 



" Also 2 rf - each from Pilgrims coming to S. James's 

 {supra muros, at what is now called Cripplegate)." 



W. P. 



Elizabeth Blackwell, M.D.- — This lady is 

 not the first instance of a female taking a medical 

 degree, for we read of — " A famous young woman 

 at Venice, of the noble family of Cornaras, that 

 spoke five tongues well, of which the Latin and 

 Greek were two. She passed Doctour of Physick 

 att Padua, according to the ordinary forms, and 

 was a person of extraordinary virtue and piety." 



Cl. Hotter. 



Singhalese Folk Lore. — The following bit of 

 Singhalese folk lore deserves a place in your 

 columns : — 



" The Singhalese have the impression that the re- 

 mains of a monkey are never found in the forest : a be- 

 lief which they have embodied in the proverb, that 'he 

 who has seen a white crow, the nest of a paddy bird, a 

 straight coco-nut tree, or a dead monkey, is certain to 

 live for ever.' This piece of folk lore has evidently 

 reached Ceylon from India, where.it is believed that per- 

 sons dwelling on the spot where a hanuman monkey (S. 

 entellus) has been killed, will die, and that even its bones 

 are unlucky, and that no house erected where they are 

 hid under ground can prosper. Hence, when a house is 

 to be built, it is one of the employments of the Jvotisb 

 philosophers to ascertain by their science that none such 

 are concealed ; and Buchanan observes that ' it is per- 

 haps owing to this fear of ill-luck, that no native will 

 acknowledge his having seen a dead hanuman.' " • 



This extract has been taken from Sir J. Emer- 

 son Tennent's charming book on Ceylon, 3rd edit. 

 vol. i. p. 133. A note is appended to the last sen- 

 tence of the extract : — 



" Buchauan's Survey of Bhagulpoor, p. 142. At Gib- 

 raltar it is believed that the body of a dead monkey is 

 never found on the rock." 



W. Sparrow Simpson. 



" Could we with ink the ocean fill." — 

 From the General Index to the 1 st S. of " N. & 

 Q.," p. 1 10., I find eleven articles have appeared 

 on these interesting lines. Another version oc- 

 curs in a small volume of MS. Poems, circa 1603, 

 in Addit. MS. 22,601., p. 60., Brit. Museum : — 

 " If all the earthe were paper white 

 And all the sea were iucke, 

 'Twere not enough for me to write 

 As mv poore liarte doth thinke." 



J. Y. 

 Vise, Vised, Viseed, Visaed. — All these turns 

 of a word are occasionally met with in our " best 

 public instructors," in connexion with passports. 

 The first is tolerable, if we suppose that there is 

 no English way of expressing " is your passport 

 vise?" As for the three others — shades of Me- 

 nage and Johnson ! — what barbarisms are here! 

 In the second and third, two participles are yoked 

 together in the same word by a sort of Anglo- 

 French alliance ; not on equal terms however ; 

 for the French, at the same time that it retains 



