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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2"^ s. IX. Mar. 24. '60. 



the Schin, B>, which in its form bears a still closer 

 resemblance to the label. This letter is borne by 

 the Jew on the Tenia for the head,— said to be there 

 placed as the first letter of Shaddai, the Almighty. 

 Is this in any mysterious way connected with the 

 label ? M. G. 



Fye Bridge, Norwich (2 nd S. ix. 162.) — Ex- 



traneus has lighted on a clerical error for " Fif- 

 brigge," which was one way of spelling the name. 

 Blometield's etymology is, as usual, incorrect. 

 There is good evidence that it was the first, or 

 one of the first, built bridges in Norwich. _My 

 father, who had paid great attention to questions 

 of this kind, regarded it as signifying "Five 

 Bridges," — a thing not at all improbable, as St. 

 Michael's Bridge was, till the beginning of the 

 present century, triple; and wherever fords have 

 been in these rivers (and there must have been one 

 here, if not a bridge, in the time of the Romans), 

 the water flows through two, three, or more chan- 

 nels. The most cursory inspection of the Ord- 

 nance Map will show that this is the case. 



B. B. Woodward. 



Malsh (2 nd S. ix. 63.) — The word malsh or 

 melch is evidently the old form of mellow, with 

 which it coincides in the fundamental meaning of 

 soft. The final guttural of the German is in a 

 great number of words represented in English by 

 ovo. Thus Balg becomes bellow ; Furche, furrow ; 

 Sorge, sorrow ; and likewise melch is softened into 

 mellow. Cognate words are fj.aka.K6s, mollis and 

 mild. W. Line. 



Liverpool. 



Donkey (2 nd S. ix. 131.) — To the inquiry of 

 Ache, why a donkey is universally called in Nor- 

 folk " a dickey," I imagine that no better answer 

 can be given than by another inquiry : Why, in 

 the West of England, the same animal is always 

 called " a neddy." The one of course is the fa- 

 miliar name for Richard, the other for Edward. 

 The choice of either is purely arbitrary. But the 

 ass is not "universally" called "a dickey" in 

 Norfolk ; we hear "donkey" every day almost as 

 often." F. C. H. 



Computus, etc. (2 nd S. ix. 52. 147.) — In illus- 

 tration of the use of " computus " by itself in the 

 sense of " an account of money," it may be worth 

 while to refer to the Statutes of King's College, 

 Cambridge, and Eton College (temp. Hen. VI.), 

 published by Longman, 1850. Statutes 52, 53, 

 54, 55, 56, of Kin^s College (pp. 136-140.), and 

 Statutes 39, 40, 41", 42 of Eton College (pp. 581- 

 584.), will supply plenty of instances of the use of 

 " computus" in the sense of which I have speken. 

 I copy parts of the headings of some of these Sta- 

 tutes — 52, p. 136., " De computo ministrorum in- 

 trinsecorum omnium et extrinsecorum ; " 54, p. 

 139., " Quomodo auditores computi habent aliis 



statum Collegii post computum intimare;" 56, p. 

 140., "De indenturis computi post computum fien- 

 dis," &c. The words computus, computatio, com- 

 putabilis, and parts of the verb computo, occur 

 fifty-six times in the nine statutes above referred 

 to, always with reference to " an account of 

 money." Selrach. 



Clergy Peers and Commoners (2 nd S. ix. 124.): 

 Clerical M.Ps. — In the short biographic sketches 

 of the members of the previous parliament (under 

 Lord Derby) given in the Illustrated London News, 

 there occurs in it one or two names of those who 

 are described as Dissenting Ministers. The clergy 

 were excluded from parliament in 1536. Whether 

 or not this Act was repealed, or fell into disuse 

 like many others, I cannot at the present moment 

 state. But at all events an act was passed in 

 1801 for the purpose of depriving the clergy of 

 the right to sit in the House of Commons, termed 

 the " Clergy Incapacitation Act." If divines are 

 in their proper sphere on the magisterial bench (?), 

 I think it may be fairly said they arc when in the 

 great council of the nation. Ralph Woodman. 



New Coll. 



The late Mr. Henry Drummond, M.P. for West 

 Surrey, is the only instance I recollect of a dis- 

 senting minister sitting in Parliament. Mr. Drum- 

 mond belonged to the sect styling themselves 

 " the Holy Catholic Apostolic Church," but who 

 are more popularly known as Irvingites ; their 

 principal place of worship is in Gordon Square. 

 In the Irvingite community Mr. Drummond held 

 three high offices, being a (so-called) Apostle, 

 Evangelist, and Prophet. Of these three orders 

 he was the head, and as such was styled " the 

 Pillar of the Apostles, the Pillar of the Prophets, 

 and the Chief Evangelist." J. A. Pn. 



Ferdinand Smyth Stuart (2 nd S. viii. 495.) — 

 I have waited in hopes that this Query would 

 have attracted the attention of some one more 

 competent to answer it. On reading it I at once 

 identified one of the sons inquired after with 

 Constantine Wentworth Stuart, whom I remem- 

 ber in Chapman's house at Charterhouse, up to 

 1823, or thereabouts; when he left, and I think, 

 went to Cork as private tutor to the son of an 

 Irish gentleman. He held afterwards, I think, 

 some very subordinate place in the Customs at 

 Liverpool. Of his brother I never heard, but I 

 have some recollection that he had a sister, several 

 years older than himself, married and settled 

 either in Canada or in the United States, and 

 that for many years C. W. Stuart corresponded 

 with this sister. As Bristoliensis inquires after 

 the sons only, I presume he is acquainted with 

 the fortunes of the sister ; and an inquiry ad- 

 dressed to her family might perhaps gain later 

 information than I am able to afford. 



CAETHUSIANU8. 



