2"* S. IX. June 1G. '60.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



473 



ping is a very common street game for boys, a stone 

 or an oyster shell being the article driven forward 

 by the foot. This is universally culled hop-scotch. 



Uneda. 

 Philadelphia. 



Date of the Crucifixion (2 nd S. ix. 404.) — 

 Tertullian {Lib. contra Judceos, c. 8.) says that our 

 Blessed Saviour was crucified on the 25th of 

 March: " Passio hujus exterminii . . . perfecta 

 est . . . mense Martio, temporibus Pascha?, die 

 octavo Kalendarum Aprilium." Lactanfius gives 

 the same day (lib. iv. c. 10.) St. Augustin asserts 

 the same in at least three places (lib. xiii., q. 56., 

 and lib. iv. de Trinit. c. 5., and Lib. de Civit. Dei, 

 lib. xviii. cap. ult.). In the last-mentioned he says : 

 " Mortuus est ergo Christus duobus Geminis con- 

 sulibus, octavo Kalendas Aprilis." St. JohnChry- 

 sostom says the same in his sermon on the nativity 

 of St. John Baptist, and St. Gregory of Tours the 

 same (lib. x. c. ult.), and our own Venerable Bede 

 the same {Lib. de Batione, temp. c. 47., etc.). St. 

 Thomas of Aquin, St. Antoninus, Platina, and 

 Usuard are quoted for the same opinion by Suarez, 

 who agrees with them (3 p. Disput. 40. sect 5. in 

 fine). The Church seems to favour this opinion 

 in her Martyroloiry, by appointing March 25 for 

 the feast of the good thief, called St. Dismas. 



F. C. H. 



Garibaldi's Parentage (2 nd S. ix. 424.) — 

 I fear that your correspondent Mr. Garstin 

 will find it difficult to establish the authenticity 

 of Garibaldi's Hibernian parentage, when he re- 

 collects that a similar theory was set up for the 

 Irish extraction of those eminent Chinese, Lin and 

 Keshin, and that within this fortnight we have 

 been informed that Lamoriciere undisguised is 

 Morissy. A. C. 



Tomb of Sir Robert de Hungerford (2 nd S. 

 viii. 464.) — Mr. Cl. Hopper's Note closes thus : — 



" Lethieullier {Archceol. vol. ii.) says, by the inscription 

 having no date, it shows it [the tomb] was set up in his 

 lifetime. Query, was this a common practice of the period ? " 



One instance will be found on fol. 257. and seq. 

 of Gibson's Camden's Britannia, fol. edit. London, 

 1695. Speaking of the building at Oxford of 

 tlirce colleges by " the pious Prince K. iElfred," 

 Camden says : — 



" lint you have a larger account of this in the old An- 

 nals of the Monastery of Winchester: In the year of our 

 Lord's incarnation 1806,111 die second year of St. (Jrim- 

 batd's coming over into EnylauJ, the University of Oxford 



litis fllH/illctl." 



lie then quotes a passage from "a very fair 

 MS. copy of that AsseriuB, who was himself at the 



same time a professor in this place," which <•! 

 thus: — 



"Bui Grymbold resenting these proceedings, retir'd 



Lately to the Monastery at Winchester, which K. 



Alfred had lately founded: and soon after, he got his 



tomb to be remov'd thither to him, in which he had de- 

 sign'd his bones should be put after his decease, and laid 

 in a vault under the chancel of the church of St. Peter's 

 in Oxford; which church the said Grym bold had raised 

 from the ground, of stones hewn and carv'd with great 

 art and beauty." 



Eric. 



Ville Marie, Canada. 



Knights of the Bound Table (2 nd S. ix. 226.) 

 — An examination of the state of Scotland dur- 

 ing and after the Artburean age, will dissipate 

 any expectation of discoveries in that quarter 

 anent the above knights. The only people of 

 Scotland, at that time, who could have received 

 and communicated any matters connected with 

 the " good King Arthur," were the race who com- 

 posed the pan pera regnum of Ystrad Che yd, whose 

 situation with respect to the Erse Celts, or Scots 

 and Picts, was certainly not of a character to cul- 

 tivate the courtesies of life. The Picts occupied 

 the whole, or nearly the whole, of the south and 

 east of Scotland; and this fact alone, after the 

 exodus of the Cymry from Cumberland, would 

 almost entirely exclude the Britons of Allt Clwyd 

 from all intercourse with the Britons of the west 

 and south of England. The Picts were ever 

 ready to invade the lands of the Cymry, who ut- 

 terly detested the Gwyddyl Fichti. This is evi- 

 denced in the promptitude of the Picts in forming 

 alliances with Hangst and Hros, and Ida, the 

 Flamebearer. The intensity of this hostility be- 

 tween the Cymry and Picts can only be accounted 

 for by their being entirely distinct races. Such 

 being the tone of the relations of those two races, 

 and the Britons being in full possession of that in- 

 dispensable element — internal dissension, as wit- 

 nesseth the battle of Arderydd, the opportunities 

 for receiving and communicating Arthurean me- 

 morials must have been small indeed. Turning to 

 the Erse or Celtic race, it will be seen that their 

 relations with the Britons were not of a more 

 humanising tendency than those of the Picts. 

 This being the result of our inquiries in the pre- 

 sent direction, we can scarcely expect to meet 

 with any memorials of the Round Table (Bwrdd 

 Crwm) in Scotland. 



It may not be generally known that the sub- 

 stratum of Arthurean chivalry is to be found in 

 the Triads contained in the Welsh archaeology, 

 where not only the principles of chivalry are to 

 be read, but the names of the principal personages 

 of Arthur's court, as well as most, or all of " the 

 Knights of the Round Table : " for example, 

 Gucnever, Gwenhwypar, Arthur's faithless queen, 

 and other instance.-', though not so clearly in 

 the case of Sir Lamorakc, whose unde derivator we 

 must seek through the Latin medium of Lomar- 

 chus, in the time-honoured name of Llywarch J fen. 



(io.MER. 



Facetia (2 Dd S. ix. 403.) — Words of the fa- 

 mily to which facetia and facetious belong appear 



