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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2-i S. IX. Mar. 17. '60. 



detect any blunders committed. I confess to be 

 quite unacquainted with the rules of the game, 

 and as to its origin I have long thought it to be 

 peculiar to Scotland, but it must now be allowed 

 to have a wider range. By such appellations as 

 "hop-scotch," or "scotch-hop," I have never 

 known it. 



The palet or peevor used, is generally a piece of 

 slate or of marble, round shaped, and two inches 

 or so in diameter ; of such solid weight as toglide 

 along, but requiring a little effort to push it be- 

 fore the foot. I think in the word palet there 

 may be found the derivation of the common name 

 pal-al; and it may be mentioned as a kind of 

 curiosity, that about two years ago, on what readers 

 may suppose a very trifling subject, down came an 

 inquiry from an antiquary in England to an LL.D. 

 here, as to the etymology of this very word pal-al. 



The latter spoke of it to me, but we were both 

 floored. Thanks however to Mr. Keightley, 

 who has shed a ray of light on the obscurity. 



G.N. 



The Land of Byheest (2 nd S. ix. 101.)— The 

 word biheest, or beheste, occurs constantly in old 

 English in the sense of promise. Wiclif uses the 

 very phrase in question, Heb. xi. 9. : "Bi feith he 

 dwelte in the land of biheeste as in an alien lond 

 dwelling in litle housis with Isaac and Jacob 

 euene eiris of the same biheeste." The word itself 

 he rises over and over again. So also Robert of 

 Gloucester, p. 231., &c. ; Life of Thomas Beket 

 (Percy Soc), vv. 45. 854., &c. In St. Brandan, 

 v. 392., &c, the same phrase occurs in the sense 

 (to the best of my recollection) of " land of pro- 

 mise," or land to which St. Brandan and his fel- 

 lows had been ordered to sail. See also Promp- 

 torium Parvulorum, voce, beheste and behotyn. 



J. Eastwood. 



Passage in Grotius (2 ,d S. viii. 453.) — Your 

 correspondent will find the remark of Grotius on 

 the Lord's Prayer in his Annotations on Mattheic, 

 ch. vi. 9. Schoettgen in his Horce Hebraicce et 

 Talmudicce takes up the subject more fully, quot- 

 ing at length the Rabbinical passages which cor- 

 respond to the petitions in the Lord's Prayer, pp. 

 51-62. H. B. 



Matthew Scrivener (2 nd S. ix. 82.)— Calamy 

 (Continuation, p. 102.) mentions an answer to 

 Scrivener by Barret. One Matthew Scrivener, 

 B.A., of Jesus College, has a copy of verses in the 

 Cambridge collection, " Hymenams Cantabrigi- 

 ensis (1683), signature K 3." He was probably 

 the son of the Fellow of Catharine. 



J. E. B. Mayor. 



St. John's College, Cambridge. 



Blue Blood (2 nJ S. viii. 523.) — Long ago I 

 read that the " blue blood of Castille " denoted 

 those families wholly untainted by Moorish al- 



liance. I can give no reference, but this is firmly 

 fixed in my memory ; and as no one has satisfac- 

 torily answered the Note, I venture to advise an 

 examination of Mariana's Spain. F. C. B. 



The Young Pretender (2 nd S. ix. 46.) — The 



fact is stated, and authorities given at length, in 

 the Pictorial History of England (Geo. III. vol. i. 

 pp. 13, 14.). The reference in the Gent. Mag. I 

 have not been able to find. It has somewhere 

 been stated that the glove was actually picked up 

 by the prince. S. O. 



Samuel Daniel (2 nd S. ix. 152.) — Permit me 

 to thank Mr. C. J. Robinson for his reply to my 

 Daniel Query, though it be of the vaguest : at 

 the same time there is no such inscription on the 

 marble tablet in Beckington church at this pre- 

 sent, as I am informed by the Rector, who has 

 kindly forwarded me a copy of the one that is 

 there. Mr. Robinson's Note does not read at all 

 like an epitaph. G. H. K. 



MiiteUmeous!. 



MONTHLY FEUILLETON ON FRENCH BOOKS. 



1. Me'inoire analytique sur la Carle de t'Asie Centrah et de 

 Vlnde, construite d'apres le Si-Yu-Ki (Mimoires sur les 

 Contries Occidentales) et les autres Relations Chinoises del 

 premiers Siecles de notre iJVe, pour les Voyages de Hiouen • 

 Thsang dans Clnde, depuis Vannee t>20 jusqu'en 645, par 

 M. Vivien de Saint Martin. S°. Paris, Benjamin Du- 

 prat (Imprimerie imperiale). 



At this period, more perhaps than at any previous one 

 during the last thirty j'ears, we feel particularly inter- 

 ested in everything relating to India, China, and Japan. 

 The habits, the laws, the religion, the literature of these 

 three countries are still so new to us, there is still so 

 much room for doubt and speculation, that we are natu- 

 rally anxious for more abundant light, and any book 

 supplying this desideratum is doubl3 r welcome. Some 

 time ago an opportunity offered to us of recommending 

 a few curious volumes connected with Chinese imagina- 

 tive literature : the productions we intend noticing in the 

 present article are not quite so poetical in their character, 

 but we can cordially praise them as extremely interest- 

 ing, and the student will find himself amply repaid by any 

 amount of trouble he may have taken in perusing them. 



The better to understand, lirst, the importance of M. 

 Vivien de Saint Martin's Me'inoire analytique, we must 

 remember that the doctrines of Buddha, after having 

 finally established themselves in the Hindustanic penin- 

 sula six or seven hundred years before the Christian era, 

 spread quickly north and south, extending even as far as 

 China, through the zeal and intrepidity of several itiner- 

 ant priests. But the most curious feature in the whole 

 matter is the manner in which these missionary expedi- 

 tions were conducted. Our common notion of such un- 

 dertakings is, that the people or community who is 

 anxious to proselytise sends its agents, takes all the pre- 

 liminary steps, and invades, if we may so say, the region 

 it wishes to convert. Amongst the Chinese, " ce peuple 

 oil tout semble se faire & l'inverse des autres " (Journ. des 

 Sav., June 1857, p. 345.),' the reverse took place. They 

 did not choose to wait till the Hindus despatched to 

 them Buddhist teachers, but they themselves organised a 



