2»a S. IX. Feb. 18. '60.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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make up the volume, having the book-binder's 

 title, Confession of Faith, taken from the first 

 tract in the series, The Director]) being the eighth. 

 The whole volume, with additions connected with 

 events of 1843, the Free Church of Scotland has 

 been scattering like snow-flakes over the land ; 

 and the curious student may, at the small charge 

 of one shilling, have all the excellent prelate has 

 recommended to his notice, ami a great deal more. 

 Although I write thus confidently, my first sur- 

 prise: did merge into scepticism as to the identity 

 of the book Dr. Whately refers to with my old 

 familiar. And I have diligently turned over all 

 historical authorities within my reach, including 

 the graphic pages of Principal Baillie, who jour- 

 nalised and epistolised on the proceedings of each 

 day, as this Directory was elaborated, clause by 

 clause, in the famous Westminster Assembly, and 

 when completed was established by ordinance of 

 the ;l Republican Parliament." But I may, after 

 all, be still at fault ; and, therefore, I respectfully 

 •'note" what is written above, and " Query," am 

 I right or wrong ? J. H. 



Glasgow. 



Rubrical Query. — The following passage oc- 

 curs in a quotation in the Edinburgh Review, No. 

 224., p. 339., from The Diary of a Visit to Eng- 

 land in 1775, by Thomas Campbell, an Irish cler- 

 gyman, in which the writer records his attendance 

 on Good Friday at the chapel of the celebrated 

 Dr. Dodd : — 



" Dodd did not read the Communion Service rubri- 

 cally, for lie kneeled at the beginning, and though it was 

 a fast day he and his coadjutors wore surplices." 



The kneeling was certainly contrary to the 

 rubric ; but I know of no rubric which enjoins the 

 minister to doff his surplice before he begins the 

 Communion Service on fast days ; nor, till I read 

 this paragraph, was I aware that it had ever been 

 the practice. Perhaps the Editor, or some of the 

 readers of " N. & Q.," can afford some informa- 

 tion on the subject. A Country Parson. 



Dutch Clock with Pendulum by Christiaan 

 Huyghens. — I read, in the New York Indepen- 

 dent for Dec. 15, 1859: — 



" The Hartford Times saya that a watchmaker in that 

 city has repaired and set in running order a German 

 clock more than two centuries old. It was built by Huy- 

 ghens, somewhere about the year 1640 [ ?], and though 

 it has not ruii for more than half a century, is now keep- 

 ing good time, and may last another two centuries. It 

 was found by the artist, Church, in the possession of a 

 Dutch family in Nova Scotia,, while he was off on his 

 iceberg sketching expedition. In that family it had been 

 handed down from father to son for generations. This is 

 one of the very lirst clocks ever made with a pendulum, 

 flic action of the pendulum on the wheel is not direct, by 

 i pallet, a- in the modern clocks, but operates 

 bj a vertical vibrating bar with ' snugs ' on it, catching 

 into the teeth at each oscillation of the pendulum. The 



clock strikes for the half-hour and hour, and is wound by 

 means of an endless chain. It is an open frame of black 

 ancient oak, exposing the works, which are of brass, and 

 nicely finished." 



Now as I know you have readers and corre . 

 spondents in the United States, I beg them to 

 help me forward by their inquiries as to°the name 

 of the Dutch family aforesaid. Farther, how it 

 can be proved that the clock I mentioned was 

 really made by Huyghens ? whether this assertion 

 depends on bare tradition, or is confirmed by his 

 name on the work ? Can a clock, in good English, 

 be said to " run," or is this a translation of the 

 Dutch loopen in the same signification ? And 

 what are " snugs " ? My dictionaries leave me at 

 "Hi". J. H. van Lennep. 



Zeyst, near Utrecht. 



Songs and Poems on several Occasions. — I 

 shall feel obliged by being informed of the author 

 and date of a 12mo. volume, of which the above is 

 the running title from p. 1. to p. 144. ; and after- 

 wards the running title is " Apollo's Feast, or the 

 Wit's Entertainment," so far as my copy extends, 

 which is to p. 166. only, and is also deficient in 

 the title-page and preliminary matter. The first 

 song is " Sir John FalstafTs Song in Praise of 

 Sack." And at p. 24. is, " The Quaker's Ballad ;" 

 at p. 37., "The Four-legged Quaker;" at p. 124., 

 " Chevy Chase," in English and Latin on opposite 

 pages. To how many pages does the book ex- 

 tend ? Aloysius. 



Chalk Drawing. — Among some drawings in 

 chalk which I lately selected from the portfolio of 

 a bookseller at Antwerp, is one of great artistic 

 merit, but I do not know its meaning. An old 

 man, in the dress of a Roman soldier, is striking 

 a light with two stones. A bow and quiver of 

 arrows hang on a broken tree and two sea-gulls 

 and a pigeon are on the ground, which is partially 

 covered with snow. The face and figure are very 

 fine, but one leg has a buskin, the other a gouty 

 shoe. Below is written : — 



" Dan had me ook het vuur ontbroken ; maar den 

 steen verbrijzelcnd op rots met moeite, ontstak ik 't 

 licht."— p. 12. 



The Flemish was explained by the vendor in 

 French nearly as difficult to understand as the 

 original. May I ask, through " N. & Q.," for a 

 translation and an explanation of the subject, if 

 known ? E. E. M. 



Rue d'Augouleme, St. Honore". 



Alliterative Poetry. — Most of your readers 

 are no doubt acquainted with the two poems 

 "Pugna Porcorum," and " Canum cum catts cer- 

 tamen;" the first dated 1530. Can anyone in- 

 form me where I can meet with a poem entitled 

 Christus Crucifixup, by Christianus Pierius, a 

 German, composed upon the same principle. It 

 consists of upwards of 1000 lines, but I am only 



