2°>» S. IX. Feb. 25. '60.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



153 



wALi.t-E. frinceps. 1745. Reverse. Britannia 

 standing near a rock on the seashore. In her 

 right hand she holds a spear, her left rests on a 

 shield ; behind it a globe, in the distance are ships 

 sailing towards her. Legend, amor. et. spes. The 

 medal evidently was struck to commemorate the 

 hope desired by his partisans. 



No. 2. Bust of Prince Charles to the right, with- 

 out drapery. Legend, redeat. magnvs. ii.le. 

 genivs. Britannia. Reverse. Britannia stands on 

 the seashore watching the approach of ships. Le- 

 gend, o. div. desiderata, navis. ; in the exergue, 

 latamni. civis, sep. xxiii. mdcclii. This would 

 imply that the former hope had been realised, but 

 we have no notice in history to warrant such a 

 supposition. Perhaps some of your correspondents 

 may kindly suggest the cause of the medal being 

 struck at this period, 1752. W. D. Haggard. 



Windsor. 



Donnellan Lectures (2 nd S. ix. 70.) — Permit 

 me to make an addition to the list of the Don- 

 nellan Lecturers. The lecturer for 1858 was the 

 Rev. James Wills, D.D., " An Estimate of the 

 Antecedent Probability of Christianity and of its 

 Doctrines." Now in the press, and nearly ready 

 for publication. A Constant Reader. 



Judges' Costume (2" d S. ix. 45.) — In answer 

 to your correspondent's Queries, I would suggest 

 that 



1. Linnen silk is lining silk; "lining" (linea- 

 tum) being so called from the fact that linen was 

 much used for that purpose ; the cloth was to be 

 lined with silk in the summer, and trimmed with 

 budge (lambskin) in the winter. 



2. " Colour curt" was probably" court colour;" 

 crimson or scarlet, perhaps of a peculiar shade, 

 as still worn exclusively by the domestics of the 

 royal household. 



3. Tires of minever were sets of fur (not silk) 

 composed of a certain number of skins. The tire 

 was identical with the tymbre or senellio, and 

 consisted of a length of six or ten skins sewn 

 together. In the Axsisa de Ponderibus et Men- 

 suris, § 205., Stat, of the Realm, the various 

 readings are 10 and 40. From this word tire 

 our present " tier " is derived. 



4. As to " furs of silk," I can say nothing; but 

 " tires of silk," I should take to be the correct 

 reading. 



For mention of " tymbres of furs," see the 

 Wardrobe Accounts for 1483, Alttiq. llepert. i. 29., 

 et passim. Henry T. Riley. 



This Day Eight Days (2 nd S.viii. 531.)— This 

 expression is taken from the Romish Church, 

 where the u octave" of a feast is mentioned. Thus 

 All Saints being held the 1st November, its octave 

 i- the «th of that month, and the 23rd April being 

 George, its octave is the 30th of the same 

 month. Our pbrasee "this day week," an'! '"this 



day se'nnight," are incorrect in terms ; for Mon- 

 day being the first day of the week, next Sunday 

 is the seventh day, consequently it is the eighth 

 from the preceding Sunday. So in music we have 

 seven notes, but the first of the next series is re- 

 quired to make the octave, or eighth note. 



T. J. BuCKTON. 



Lichfield. 



A Gloucestershire Story (2 nd S. ix. 93.) — 

 Provincialis should have added to his narrative 

 that the "story" was embodied in a humorous 

 poem entitled " Chavenage," by the late Rev. R. 

 W. Huntley, M. A., late Fellow of All Souls, and 

 dedicated to the Warden and Fellows of that 

 College. 



This tale of the Cotswolds displays something of 

 the religious and political feelings of the period 

 during which the tale runs, though two other 

 local traditions, under the heads of Hawkesbury 

 Manor and Squire Matthew, are given in the same 

 volume. An introduction precedes the poem. 

 Lond. Burns, 1845. G. 



$Hi4teUnneou$. 



NOTES ON BOOKS. 



Memoirs, Letters, and Speeches of Anthony Ashley Cooper, 

 Fiist Karl of Shaftesbury, Lord Chancellor; with other 

 Papers illustratinff his Life, from his Birtli to the Restora- 

 tion. Edited by \V. D. Christie. Esq., H.M. Envoy Ex- 

 traordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary in Brazil. 

 (Murray.) 



Mr. Christie has here given to the world a volume well 

 calculated to please readers of English history, and who 

 desire to know the truth. Nearly eighteen years since 

 he conceived the idea of writing a Life of the first Earl of 

 Shaftesbury, and soon found how extensive were the in- 

 quiries, how careful must be the investigation, which 

 such a subject demanded; and the present volume may 

 be considered as a first instalment towards the publica- 

 tion of such a series of original documents as should at 

 once clear the way, and prepare the public mind for the 

 proposed Life. It contains, besides two fragments of 

 autobiography, many other original documents from the 

 collections of the present Lord Shaftesbury and of Lord 

 Lovelace — the whole being illustrated with a series of 

 notes, which add greatly to the value of the book, and 

 prove that Mr. Christie possesses the zeal and intel- 

 ligence requisite to do justice to the important biography 

 which he has undertaken. Mr. Christie's defence of 

 Shaftesbury from Lord Campbell's criticisms, is written 

 in a frank and manly spirit, which Lord Campbell will 

 we are sure be the first to admit. 



Shaltspeare Papers by William Maginn, LL.D. New 

 edition. (Bentley.) 



Dr. Maginn was a man of such vast intellectual powers 

 that his criticism, when exercised upon works of the 

 highest genius, was ever as loving as it was profound. 

 No wonder then that we have in the series of Essays 

 here collected, not only traces of his reverence for the 

 genius of Slnikspeare, but the clearest insight into many 

 of the most subtle, workings of Shakapeare's mind: so 

 that the render will rise from a perusal of each Kssay, 

 not only with a new and deeper sense of the beauties of 

 the poet, but with that which it has been so long a 



