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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2"d s. IX. May 5. 'CO. 



Bula de la. Cruzada. — In a controversial 

 work by the Rev. J. Blanco White {Practical and 

 Internal Evidence against Catholicism, 2nd edit. 

 1826), the above-named bull is said to be pub- 

 lished every year in the Spanish diversions. Can 

 you inform me if this Crusade Bull is still pub- 

 lished ? If so, ou what occasion ? 



George Lloyd. 



[It would appear from the following notice of the 

 Crusade Bull in Ford's Handbook of Spain, 1855, p. 204., 

 that its publication is still continued: — "In the suburb 

 of Seville was the celebrated Porta Cell (Cceli), founded 

 in 1450. Here was printed the Bula de Cruzada, so called 

 because granted by Innocent III. to keep the Spanish 

 Crusaders in fighting condition, by letting them eat meat 

 rations in Lent when they could get them. This, the 

 bull, la Bula, is announced with grand ceremony every 

 January, when a new one is taken out, like a game certi- 

 ficate, by all who wish to sport with flesh and fowl with 

 a safe conscience; and by the paternal kindness of the 

 Pope, instead of paying 3/. 13s. Gd., for the small sum of 

 dos reales, 6d., a man, woman, or child, may obtain this 

 benefit of clergy and cookery: but woe awaits the un- 

 certificated poacher — treadmills for life are a farce — 

 perdition catches his soul, the last sacraments are denied 

 to him on his death : the first question asked by the 

 priest is not if he repents of his sins, but whether he has 

 his bula ; and in all notices of indulgences, &c, Se ha de 

 tener la bula is appended. The bull acts on all fleshly 

 but sinful comforts, like soda on indigestion : it neu- 

 tralises everything except heresy. The contract in 1846 

 was for 10,000 reams of paper to print them on at Toledo, 

 and the sale produced about 200,000/. The breaking one 

 fast during Lent used to inspire more horror than break- 

 ing any two commandments. It is said that Spaniards 

 now fast less; but still .the staunch and starving are 

 disgusted at Protestant appetites in eating meat break- 

 fasts during Lent. It sometimes disarms them by saying, 

 ' Tengo mi bula para todo.' "] 



"Knap," its Meaning? — This word occurs 

 frequently in the names of places in the neigh- 

 bourhood of Beaminster : for example, Furzy- 

 Knaps, Stony-Knap, Stoke-Knap, Benville-Knap, 

 Newnham-Knap, Crown Cross-Knap, Caphays- 

 Knap. What is its origin and meaning ? 



Vryan Rheged. 



[Pnlman in his Local Nomenclature, p. 95., informs us 

 that " Knap is a very common term in the west of Eng- 

 land, for rising ground. Hence Misterton Knap, near 

 Crewkerne, and Knap Inn at Ford Abbey. It is evidently 

 from the Anglo-Saxon cncep : 



" Hark ! on hnap of yonder hill 

 Some sweet shepherd tunes his quill.' — Brown."'] 



Coronation, when First Introduced. — What 

 is the earliest mention made of crowning as an act 

 of royal consecration ? We find this ceremony 

 expressly recorded 2 Kings xi., where Jebniada 

 places the crown on the head of the young King 

 JoMsh. But though frequently employed in Holy 

 Scripture as a symbol of royalty, no notice occurs 

 of its actual use in the consecration of the earlier 

 Jewish monarchs. Saul was not crowned in the 

 ceremonial sense: Psalm xxi. 3. would imply more 

 than its figurative adoption. Solomon was made 



to ride on the royal mule, was duly anointed, and 

 his accession proclaimed by sound of trumpets, 

 accompanied by the usual salutations. In a pro- 

 gramme arranged by David at such a crisis 

 nothing was likely to be omitted which could give 

 legal effect to the succession ; yet, though the 

 above details of ceremony are specified, corona- 

 tion is not even indirectly alluded to : and Solo- 

 mon was not Prince Regent, but the duly elected 

 King. Perhaps it was contrary to state etiquette 

 to transfer the crown in the lifetime of the reign- 

 ing monarch. The crown worn by the King of 

 Amnion was taken "from off his head" and " set 

 on David's head." (1 Chron. xx. 2.) It was cus- 

 tomary, therefore, to wear this as well as other 

 regal insignia (on state occasions only, Query). 

 It was not laid aside in war : when Saul fell iu 

 Gilboa, the crown was removed from off his head, 

 and brought by the Amalekite to David. Even 

 the mock election of a king was deemed by the 

 soldiery (Matt, xxvii.) incomplete without corona- 

 tion. F. Phillott. 



[Our correspondent has anticipated the reply to his 

 own Query. The Holy Scriptures undoubtedly contain 

 the earliest mention of the practice of crowning as well 

 of common people as of priests and kings (conf. Deut. 

 vi. 8.; Isa. Ixi. 10.; Cant. iii. 11.; and Ezek. xxiv. 17. 

 23.). The crown of Amnion was not set upon, but sus- 

 pended over the head of David (1 Chron. xx. 22. ; 2 Sam. 

 xii. 30.), for it weighed a talent. The practices of crown- 

 ing and anointing a king are of the very highest anti- 

 quity, and the Jews probably borrowed both from the 

 Egyptians; whose temples, and more particularly those 

 of Memnonium or Remesseum, and Medeenet Hahoo, 

 contain to this day pictorial representations of the pomps 

 and ceremonies common to such occasions, which agree, 

 in the most remarkable particulars, with the several de- 

 scriptions of similar institutions contained in Holy writ. 

 Vide Wilkinson's Aticient Egyptians, vol. v. p. 277. et seq. 

 (edit. 1847.) 



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