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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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Wicquefort." These books nre numbered 21— 30., 

 and 32.; No. 31. being by some accident missing. 

 Sir R. Ellis died on the 4th of Feb. 1741-42, 

 leaving his library to his widow, who subsequently 

 married Lord Despencer. 



A gentleman in Holland is now preparing for 

 the press this work of Wicquefort, and would feel 

 obliged to any reader of "N. & Q." who could 

 give him any information concerning the books 

 purchased by the English ambassador. 



John Scott. 



Bank Street, Norwich. 



Scavenger. — From whence this strange word ? 

 Has it anything to do with the Danish word skar- 

 nager, a dustman, or with the Dutch straatveger, 

 a street-sweeper ? Or is it from scavage, and if 

 so, from whence that term ? J. H. van Lennep. 



Zeyst, near Utrecht. 



Shaftesbury or Rochester ? — In Law and 

 lawyers by Archel Poison of Lincoln's Inn in 

 1858, is the following : — 



" Shaftesbury was one of the most remarkable men re- 

 corded in English history. His wit and address were 

 unequalled. The king once said to him, ' Shaftesbury, 

 thou art the greatest rogue in the kingdom.' ' Of a sub- 

 ject, sir,' coolly replied Shaftesbury with a bow." 



This anecdote has been repeatedly related of 

 Charles II. and the Earl of Rochester. What 

 authority is there for substituting Shaftesbury 

 for the latter ? Uneda. 



Philadelphia. 



Robert Doughty, of S. John's College, Cam- 

 bridge, B.A. 1611—12, M.A. 1615, was master of 

 the Free School at Wakefield fifty years or more, 

 and Charles Hoole, a noted grammarian, was one 

 of his scholars. We shall be glad of any addi- 

 tional information touching Mr. Doughty. 



C. H. & Thompson Cooper. 



Cambridge. 



Whipping the Cat. — What is the meaning of 

 this expression ? It occurs in a Philadelphia 

 newspaper for June 19, 1793, as the heading of 

 this paragraph : — 



" Mip.ahkau's ashes were dispersed as belonging to a 

 traitor, by the patriot BrUmt, who ia styled a villain by 

 the patriot E'galite, whose banishment is advocated by 

 the patriot Robespierre, who is declared to be a monster 

 by the patriot Dumouriez, who is stigmatized a traitor by 

 the patriot Marat, who is now confined by a patriotic 

 decree of the Convention." 



Uneda. 



Philadelphia. 



The Isis and Tamisis mentioned in an Indian 

 Manuscript. — Mr. C.J. de Grave says, in his 

 ttepublique des Champs- E'lysees, vol. ii. p. 174.: 



" i/cs jouruaux du mois d'Octobre, 1800, ont publie' 

 rpi'on vc-nait de ddlerrer h Hi-'nari's un vieux manuscrit en 

 languc sacre'e, qui contenait un traite topographiquc. 

 < It » : crit donne la description d'une ile appelce Sainte. 



On y trouve, dit-on, les noms A'lsis et de Tamisis, et la 

 description d'un temple en forme de pagode Indienne. 

 Comme il s'agissait d'une ile, et qu'on y rencontrait les 

 noms de deux rivieres connues d'Angleterre, et particu- 

 lierement celui du beau fleuve la Tamise, on s'est flatte 

 que e'e'tait la topographie de ce royaume, et la Compagnie 

 des Inrtes a donee des ordres pour en laire promptement 

 la traduction," etc. 



Was this MS. indeed translated and printed? 

 and if so, under what title ? (From The Navor- 

 scher, vol. iv. p. 135.) R, E. 



Robert Smith. — The two following inscrip- 

 tions are found, one on the fly-leaf at the begin- 

 ning, and the other on the last printed leaf, of a 

 Bible, which was formerly chained before the 

 rood in Fountains Abbey for public reading, and 

 which was sold within the ljst two years by Mr. 

 Kerslake of Bristol. I wish to found a Query 

 presently upon these inscriptions. 



That on the fly-leaf at the beginning is : — 



" Liber Sanctse Maria? Yirginis Gloriosaj de Fonlibus, 

 ex dono domini lloberti Smythe, egiegii Sacra? theologia) 

 professoris, et quondam Pectoris de vada." 



That on the last printed leaf is : — ■ 



" Quibus hniusce opusculi sese assuefacere Juuat Lec- 

 *tura, quantum libet libere perfruantur; sit tamen eis lege, 

 ut Reuerendissimi patris uostri et Domini Marmaduci 

 Abbatis de Fontibus, eiusque nom nis prirai, Ac Eoberti 

 fabri, sacras theologire professoris, viri et sui temporis 

 illustrissimi, ac rectoris de vada, suis precibus hie ante 

 cruciflxum, memoria agant ; — Quorum Alter, ab hac luce 

 discedens, present em opusculum huic monasterio legauit 

 — Alter pia consideratione publicum procurans profectum, 

 hie catenis obferauit." 



The contractions are filled out in the extract, 

 from which I copy. The abbat was Marmaduke 

 Huby, who sat from ad. 1494 to 1526 ; and the 

 last inscription must have been written after the 

 appointment of Marmaduke Bradley, in 1536-7, 

 who was the second abbat of that christian name. 



Vada seems to Latinise Wath — a name mean- 

 ing ford in Yorkshire — and given to a parish at 

 no great distance from Fountains Abbey. 



The question I wish to ask is, whether Robert 

 Smythe, the rector, is identical with Robert Smith, 

 S. T. P. of Lincoln College, Oxford, who was 

 Vice-Chancellor of the University, a.d. 1493 — 

 1497 ? and whether anything is known of the 

 latter beyond this bare fact ? 



I would ask another question with respect to 

 the book itself. It is in black-letter, without date, 

 and the title is : — 



" Biblinrum Latinorum tertia pars, in se Continent 

 Glosam Ordinariam cum Expositione Lyra; Literali et 

 Morali, necnon Additionibus et Keplivis, super Libros 

 Job, Psalterium, Prov., Eccl., Cant. Cantt., Sap., Eccles." . 



The date is supposed to be ahout a.d. 1520. Can 

 the year be more definitely ascertained ? 



Patonce. 



Irish Forfeitures. — I have a quarto volume 

 of old and curious pamphlets relative to Ireland 



