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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2» d S. IX April 7. '60. 



Lainy observes, Latin versions were then " in- 

 numerable." I think it is highly probable that 

 the very ancient copy of the Greek Scriptures 

 lately discovered by Teschendorf contains this 

 clause. 



By the way, I have not yet seen in " N. & Q." 

 any reference to this most interesting and im- 

 portant addition to Biblical treasures — the result 

 of Prof. Tischendorf's researches in the East, in 

 virtue of a commission from the Emperor of 

 Russia. This learned Professor has succeeded in 

 finding a great number of MSS. of very high an- 

 tiquity; but foremost stands the priceless treasure 

 to which I have alluded — a perfect copy of the 

 Greek Scriptures, both Old and New Testaments, 

 which Tischendorf pronounces to be as old as the 

 beginning of the fourth century, and therefore 

 synchronous with the first general council of 

 Nicasa. He found it in a monastery on Mount 

 Sinai. As some of the readers of " N. & Q." have 

 probably communications with St. Petersburg, it 

 would be conferring a benefit on Biblical science, 

 and a pleasure on many of your readers, if they 

 could obtain from their correspondents, and trans- 

 fer to your pages, any information on this and 

 other passages that have given rise to Biblical 

 controversy. Among the rest, it would be very 

 interesting to know if the celebrated text of the 

 Three Witnesses (1 John v. 7.) is to be found in 

 the newly-discovered Codex. John Williams. 



Arno's Court. 



Cockade (2 nd S. vii. 304. 421.)— There are 

 two questions in connexion with this subject upon 

 which I should be glad to elicit some farther in- 

 formation. 



1. Whether peers of the realm have any right 

 to the use of the cockade in virtue of their pa- 

 tents ?. 



2. Whether the widows of deputy-lieutenants, 

 or of officers of either service, are entitled to the 

 cockade equally with the livery and armorial bear- 

 ings of their deceased husbands ? G. B. 



In a letter to me, dated 6th March, 1860, Sir J. 

 Bernard Burke (Ulster), author of the Peerage, 

 &c. &c, says, " I have no hesitation in saying that 

 commissioned officers of volunteer corps are en- 

 titled to the privilege of having cockades in their 

 servants' hats." This may probably settle the 

 question discussed several times of late in " N. & 

 Q." As respects noncommissioned officers and 

 privates, there can be no question that they are 

 not entitled to the privilege. W. H. 



Bocase Tree (2 nd S. viii. 498.) — In the re- 

 marks made upon my Query about the meaning of 

 the name Bocase, as applied to a stone now stand- 

 ing, and a tree that once stood, in Brigstock 

 Forest, Northamptonshire, a quotation is intro- 

 duced from Cox's Magna Britannia, referring to 

 a tree in the same forest called "King Stephen's 



Oak," and implying that perhaps this may have 

 been the tree about which my inquiry was made. 

 But they were two different trees, as I was al- 

 ready aware, and will now show. King Stephen's 

 oak, to which the Magna Britannia alludes, and 

 which gave to one of the ridings in the forest the 

 name of " Stephen Oak Riding," is now quite 

 gone ; but an old woodman (only dead about four 

 years since) knew and often pointed out to my 

 informant the exact spot on which it stood, as he 

 remembered when some portion of it still re- 

 mained. This was a mile and a half, or rather 

 more, from the site of the Bocase stone and tree. 

 This fact rather interferes with the otherwise in- 

 genious explanation of " Buck-case," as denoting 

 the spot where the buck was cased, or flayed : as 

 one can hardly suppose that, having shot a deer 

 on one spot, they would carry it a mile and a half 

 to flay it at another. They would either flay it 

 where it was killed, or carry it home at once for 

 the operation. So that I should be glad if your 

 etymological readers would still consider my 

 Query as open to another solution. H. W. 



Tipcat (2 nd S. ix. 97. 205.) — 



" The four chief sins of which he was guilty were danc- 

 ing, ringing the bells of the parish church, playing at 

 tipcat, and reading the history of Sir Bevis of Southamp- 

 ton. .... In the middle of a game of tipcat he paused, 

 and stood staring wildly upwards with his stick in his 

 hands." — Macaulav's Biographies, "John Bunyan," pp. 

 30, 31. 



I saw the game plaved last Saturday in Francis 

 Street, Walworth. R. W. 



Rev. N. Bull (2 nd S. ix. 172.) — Z. is informed 

 that the Rev. Alfred N. Bull, B.A., the author of 

 the Brief Memoir of Nicholas Bull, LL.B., has 

 selected and inserted in the memoir fifty-six pages 

 of poems, hymns, and translations, but no dramatic 

 pieces. D. Sedgwick. 



Identity of St. Radegunda and St. Un- 

 cumber (2 nd S. ix. 164.) — It occurs to me that 

 this identity is not so well established by the 

 circumstance that Queen Radegunda left her 

 husband, King Clothaire IV., — with that hus- 

 band's consent too, — and that St. Uncumber 

 relieves weary ladies of their mates, as by the fol- 

 lowing incident in the life of the Thuringian pa- 

 troness of the Trinitarian order abroad, and of the 

 members of it at Thellesford Priory, founded by 

 Sir William Lucy of Charlecote. The incident to 

 which I have alluded is to this effect. Queen 

 Radegunda was one day walking in the gardens 

 of her palace, when she heard groans proceeding 

 from captives on the other side of the wall. They 

 were weeping, and imploring pity, encumbered as 

 they were with heavy fetters. The good and 

 pious queen wept too at hearing those sounds of 

 woe. She could not see the sufferers, but she 

 could pray for them ; and her prayers were so 



