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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2»* S. IX. Mar. 24. '60. 



other mediaeval ornaments, it originated in the 

 taste or fancy of the artist, who in a rustic place 

 would borrow examples for ornament from the 

 scenes around. The stall ends at Tuttington 

 (SS. Peter and Paul), Norfolk, are ornamented 

 with figures and animals, some engaged in rural 

 occupations ; among others the process of milking 

 and churning, and other dairy operations, are re- 

 presented. Ornaments of this kind are generally 

 found in a later style of architecture, and were 

 designed without any mystic meaning, religious 

 or otherwise ; and although perhaps likely to up- 

 set the gravity of some, they would not disturb 

 the minds of villagers, but the exhibition of such 

 familiar objects might lead them to acknowledge 

 His power in whose house they were. 



G. W. W. Minns. 



I beg leave to inform H. D'Aveney that the 

 legend to which he refers is no doubt that of 

 St. Guthlac. There is or was over the west door 

 of Croyland Abbey (which he founded), some 

 sculpture where he is represented in a boat 

 coming to land, where lies a sow and pigs under 

 a willow tree. For the legend tells us that St. 

 Guthlac was directed by the spirit to fix his 

 station by a place where he should find a sow 

 suckling her pigs, thus rendered — 



" The sign I'll tell you, keep it well in mind, 

 When you in quest, by river side shall find 

 A sow in color white, of largest size, 

 Which under covert of the willow lies ; 

 With thirty pigs so white, a numerous race ; 

 There fix your city, 'tis the fatal place." 



J. W. Brown. 



Lord Eldon a Swordsman (2° d S. ix. 121.) — 

 If Nix puts the correct date to the volume he 

 quotes, i. e. 1781, the dedication could not be ad- 

 dressed to Lord Eldon as Attorney-General. He 

 was not raised to that office till April, 1793 ; and 

 had scarcely been known in the Courts in 1781. 

 He received a silk gown in 1783, and was pro- 

 moted to the Solicitor- Generalship in June, 1788. 

 In 1799, he became Chief Justice of Common 

 Pleas, and in 1801 received the Seals as Lord 

 Chancellor. There must be some mistake, there- 

 fore, in the person or the date. Legalis. 



"The Tarantula" (2 nd S. ii. 310.) — If this 

 work was written by the same person who wrote 

 The Rising Sun, the name of the author was I 

 think Thoniiis Pike Lathy. See a list of his works 

 in Watt's JBibliotheca, and also Biographical Dic- 

 tionary of Living Authors, 1816. R. Inglis. 



" My eie and Betty Martin" (2 nd S. ix. 171.) 



— I copied the phrase— "Mihi et Beati Martini" 



— from the Gentleman s Magazine, more than 

 sixty years ago. I regarded the phrase, and so I 

 have no doubt did Mr. Urban, as a mere play 

 upon the words — a joke, or pun. Prisciau's head 



is often bruised without remorse, in the perpetra- 

 tion of such things ; and such flimsy obstacles as 

 orthography and syntax broken through in de- 

 fiance of law and rule. Either of the amendments 

 which Ignoramus supplies will remedy the defect 

 in the phrase which I have quoted ; but at the 

 same time essentially blunt the point of the jeu 

 de mots intended. 



If Ignoramus will turn to my communication 

 (2 nd S. ix. 73.), he will find that I only "half 

 in earnest" held the quoted Latin phrase to be 

 the origin of the English one, and added that it was 

 the only one I had ever heard, and that I should 

 be glad to be favoured with others. It is really 

 " Breaking a butterfly upon the wheel," 



to mar a joke by insisting that it should be ex- 

 pressed with strictly grammatical exactness. 



Pishey Thompson. 



Stoke Newington. 



" Thinks I to Myself " (2 nd S. ix. 64.) — I 

 am a little surprised to see that the authorship of 

 Thinks I to myself is given to a gentleman of the 

 name of Dennys, or to any one but the well- 

 known and acknowledged author, the Rev. Ed- 

 ward Nares, D.D. Some of his other works were 

 certainly of a graver character, viz., Memoirs of 

 W. Cecil, Lord Burleigh ; Remarks on the Uni- 

 tarian Version of the New Testament ; Elements 

 of General History, a continuation of Professor 

 Ty tier's work; but Lowndes add3, " Dr. Nares 

 is also the author of a popular novel, entitled 

 Thinks I to myself, and of Heraldic Anomalies, au 

 entertaining work, presenting much curious in- 

 formation." My late friend Archdeacon Nares 

 always spoke of the work as written by his rela- 

 tive. J. H. Markland. 



French Church in London (2 nd S. ix. 199.) — 

 I shall be much obliged to M. Thg.. if he will put 

 me in the way of examining the French Prayer 

 Book of 1552, which he has described at p. 199. 

 I have lately found here, in our Public Library, a 

 copy of a French New Testament — " imprime a 

 Londres, 1553" — a small 8vo. volume, printed in 

 Roman letter, but of which I have not as yet been 

 able to find any notice, or to trace another copy. 

 The type of this Testament does not resemble 

 that of any English books of Edward's reign with 

 which I am acquainted, and I am anxious there- 

 fore to compare it with the Prayer Book. It is 

 well known that Edward VI. granted Letters Pa- 

 tent in favour of the French Congregation in 

 London ; and I have reason to believe that their 

 Records are not only very well kept, but, thanks 

 to those in office, at present very easy of access. 

 These, too, might possibly throw some light upon 

 the former owner of the Prayer Book, Johannes 

 Dalaberus, as well as upon Galterus Delcenus 

 (the Editor of the Latin New Testament printed 

 at London by Mayler in 1540) ; also, I believe, a 



