2° d S. IX June 9. '60.] 



NOTES AND QUEKIES. 



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with less scurrility than was usual at that time. 

 Its exposure of Sir Joseph Maw bey shows that he 

 was then with the Whigs. He must have gone 

 over before the Coalition, or he would not have 

 been made so prominent in The Bolliad. 



I remembered the picture, but not where it 

 was. After turning over a great number of ma- 

 gazines I found it. Is anyone able and willing to 

 give a new edition of The Holliad with explana- 

 tory notes ? Some of the finest wit ever written 

 is likely to become unintelligible, but much may 

 yet be saved. I think the Editor might expect 

 help from the correspondents of " N. & Q." I 

 shall be happy to tell him what I know, and to 

 hunt for what there is a hope of finding. Out of 

 the twenty-seven " Translations of Lord Bel- 

 grave's Quotation " I understand only seventeen. 



Fitzhopkins. 



Garrick Club. 



[Thanks to the contributions of Mr. Markland, Sir 

 Walter Tkevelyan, the late Mr. Croker, Lord 

 Bratbrooke, Mr. Dawson Turner, and other friends 

 in the 2nd and 3rd volumes of our First Series, tbe au- 

 thorship of the several articles in The Ttollind, &c. has 

 been sufficiently identified. But it is very different with 

 regard to the allusions in these admirable pieces of wit 

 and humour. We hope our correspondent Fitz Hopkins 

 will tell us all he knows, and that others of our readers 

 will follow his example; and then, if no better Editor 

 presents himself, We should feel disposed, if leisure per- 

 mitted, to undertake the task of bringing together the 

 materials thus collected, in a new edition of The Rol- 

 liad, &c— Ed. " N. & Q."] 



Ur Chasdim (2 nd S. ix. 361.)— The Septuagint 

 and Josephus concur in describing the Ur Chas- 

 dim * as in Chaldsea (Antiq. 1. vii. 1.), but the word 

 TIN, Ur, translated • by the LXX. x"P a > country 

 (Luke xv. 13.), is, without doubt, a proper name, 

 a vestige of which perhaps remains in the castle of 

 Ur, described by Ammianus Marcellinus (xxv. 8.), 

 by Cellarius in Orbe Antiquo, and by Bochart 

 (Phaleg. ii. G.) More on this site" may be found 

 in Sehlcizer's Chaldceans (Eichhorn's Rep. viii. 

 135.) In D'Anville's EEuphrute et le Tigre, Ur 

 is found in long. 60° 12', lat. 36° 4'.f Whatever 

 may have been the etymology of Dura (SO-H), it 

 is the name of a city in the Old Testament, and 

 in D'Anville is on the Tigris in lat. 34i°, near to 

 Tekrit. (See Ammianus Marcellinus, xxv. 6.) In 

 these geographical views Michaelis concurs. The 

 Koran has propagated many traditions, in a blun- 

 dering way, as to Jews and Christians, Mahomet 

 Laving employed as his secretary a renegade Jew- 

 Christian, who was evidently a very ignorant man, 

 and in this respect not unlike his master. Histo- 

 rically it is a fallacy to regard the traditions in the 

 ■ n respecting the Jews as independent of Jewish 



* XoAJaioi, Clialilai, is a Greek corruption of CliustJim, 

 in which they followed the Arabians* and Syrians. The 

 Kurds are the present representatives of the Syrian 

 ChdUUL 



t In our maps Orfa or Edessa, long. 38° 6T, lat. 37° 9'. 



traditions, for they were borrowed, in a confused 

 manner, from the latter. It may be inferred that 

 in the works consulted by Josephus in respect to 

 Abraham, as Berosus, Hecata;us, and Nicholaus 

 of Damascus, no such tradition as the burning 

 fiery furnace, and the contention with Nimrod 

 (who died three centuries before Abraham left 

 Chaldsea) was then extant, or one of them would, 

 we may assume, certainly have recorded it. (See 

 Michaelis, Spicilegium, ii. 77.) T. J. Buckton. 

 Lichfield. 



Alleged Interpolations in the " Te Deum " 

 (2 nd S. ix. 407.) — In the course of the discussions 

 on this subject which have appeared in " N. & Q.," 

 reference has been made to an imitation of the 

 " Te Deum," in the shape of a hymn to the 

 Blessed Virgin — " We praise thee, Mother of 

 God ; we acknowledge thee to be Virgin Mary " 

 (Te Matrem Dei laudamus, te Mariam Virginem 

 confitemur). This imitation has been generally 

 attributed to St. Bonaventure, and appears as part 

 of the " Psalter of the Blessed Virgin," also sup- 

 posed to be his. I observe, however, that your 

 correspondent F. C. H. says in unqualified terms, 

 " this ' parody' on the Te Deum is falsely ascribed 

 to St. Bonaventure." Will F. C. H. be so oblig- 

 ing as to state his grounds for this assertion ? I 

 am aware that Alban Butler says in a note " The 

 psalter of the Blessed Virgin is falsely ascribed to 

 St. Bonaventure, and unworthy to bear his name." 

 Butler adds " See Fabricius in Biblioth. med. 

 cetat. Bellarmin and Labbe de Script. Eccl. Nat. 

 Alexander, Hist. Eccl. Saec. 13 : " but on an exa- 

 mination of these authorities, nothing is found, to 

 bear out Butler's assertion. See the evidence 

 examined at length in King's Psalter of the B. V. 

 Mary illustrated, Dublin, 1840, p. 48, &c. 



Vedette. 



An " Improved " recension of the Prayer Book, 

 published for the Unitarians in 1820, contains an 

 expurgated version of the Te Deum, from which 

 the clauses invoking the Holy Trinity are left 

 out, or so modified as to be neutralised. Are there 

 any other examples of this kind of dealing with 

 that ancient hymn ? B. H. C. 



ClMEX LECTTJLARIUS (2 nd S. IX. 369., &C.) — 



" Cimex. Flin. Vermis odore tetro. nopis. Al. 

 Wantzen. B. Want oft Walluys, Weegluys, quod 

 in spondis lectorum inveniatur. G. Punaise. It. 

 Cimicc. H. Chisme. Ang. a Wallyse." 



The above is from Nomenclator, Omnium Iterum 

 Propria Nomina, septan diversis Linguis Ex- 

 plicata. Auctore Hadriano Junio Medico, 8vo. 

 Fiancofurti, 1620, p. 72., and disproves, what 

 otherwise seems absurd enough, the traditional 

 introduction of these insects into Europe from 

 America in 1667. The languages are German, 

 Dutch, French, Italian, Spanish, and English. 



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