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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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crucifixion. Shocked at. the levity which this oc- 

 casioned, T have ever since published banns imme- 

 diately after the Nicene creed. But, as I did not 

 follow Captain Cuttle's rule, I would be obliged 

 if any contributor to " 1ST. & Q." would state when 

 and by whom this rule was laid down. E. G. R. 



Male and Female Swans (2 nd S. viii. 416. 

 524.) — In some old MSS. which I have seen on 

 swan-marks, the male bird is called cobb, and 

 the female pen (not hen). Some of the other 

 terms applied to swans are curious. The right of 

 keeping a pair of swans on a public water is called 

 cygninota, a swan-mark, because each person pos- 

 sessed of this right had his distinguishing mark. 

 The right of the crown, sometimes granted to 

 private persons or corporations, of seizing white 

 swans unmarked by their owners is a game of 

 swans, deductus cygnorum, une deduite, or volatus 

 cygnorum. 



The swan-upper of the owner of the game of 

 swans is magister deductus cygnorum. The swan- 

 mark of the Dymocks, champion of England, is a 

 mark like a spear cut on the bill. The tenants of 

 the Bishop of Ely's manor of Ely Barton were 

 obliged to cut sloping passages from the pits 

 whence they had cut turf for fuel, that the cygnets, 

 if they fell in, might be enabled to get out. 



E. G. R. 



"End" (2 nd S. viii. 432. 522.)— In Norfolk, 

 in Herts, and in Bedfordshire this word is used as 

 correctly stated by your correspondent W. H. W. 

 T. Thus Hemblington End is the part of the parish 

 of Blofield adjoining to Hemblington. It is, how- 

 ever, restricted to clusters of cottages ; and some- 

 times, where there are cottages in both parishes, a 

 curious confusion in nomenclature arises. Thus, 

 if there were some cottages standing close toge- 

 ther in parishes A and B, those in parish " A " 

 would be called "B"end; while those in "B" 

 would be " A " end. I have known this cause 

 a mistake in publishing banns of marriage. 



E. G. R. 



The Psalter of the Blessed Virgin (2 nd S. 

 ix. 470.) — I have so much respect for S. Bona- 

 ventura and his writings, that I should feel truly 

 obliged to your correspondent F. C. H. if he 

 could produce any sufficient and conclusive evi- 

 dence in support of his assertion, that the imita- 

 tion of the Te Hewn is falsely ascribed to that 

 eminent saint. F. C. II., however, is wrong in 

 supposing that my only reliance is a "professed 

 examination" of the authorities cited in the note 

 on Father Butler's Lives of the Saiids. Mr. King 

 of Dublin, in his Psalter of the B. V. Mary illus- 

 trated, does not merely "profess" to have ex- 

 amined the authorities in question. He gives 

 them in extenso (pp. 48 — 53.) ; and I think any- 

 one who will examine them must at once perceive 

 that, soj'ar as they bear upon the question at all, 



they confirm, rather than impugn, the genuineness 

 of the "Psalter," as the produce of S. Bonaven- 

 tura's pen. Mr. King himself, with the "autho- 

 rities" under his readers' eyes, writes, "When we 

 inquire on what authority the note in the Lives of 

 the Saints asserts the Psalter of Bonaventure to 

 be spurious, we find ourselves referred to four 

 testimonies, viz. those of Fabricius, Bellurmine, 

 Labhe, and Natalis Alexander. No one of these 

 four expresses the least doubt relative to the genu- 

 ineness of the Psalter of the Blessed Virgin." 

 (p. 79.) Vedette. 



Mrs. Dugald Stewart (2 nd S. ix. 386.) —This 

 lady, Helen D'Arcy (not Jane Anne) Cranstoun, 

 was the third dauohter of the Honourable George 

 Cranstoun, youngest son of William, fifth Lord of 

 Cranstoun (Douglas's Peerage, by Wood, i. 369.). 

 She was born in the year ] 765 ; married Professor 

 Dugald Stewart of Catrine, Ayrshire, 26th of July, 

 1790, and died at Warriston House, near Edin- 

 burgh, 28th of July, 1838. 



In the Appendix to the new edition of John- 

 son's Scolish Musical Museum, vol. iv. p. 366.*, 

 the editor (David Laing) prints some verses be- 

 ginning "Returning spring, with gladsome ray," 

 which he says " I have reason to believe were also 

 written by Mrs. Stewart." 



Edward F. Rimbault. 



Passage tn Menander (2 nd S. ix. 327. 395. 

 410.) — Although the original Greek cannot be 

 given, the sentiment is clearly Menander's, for 

 Terence in the Andria, founded on Menander's 

 Andria and Perinthia (iv. i. 13.) says : — 



. . . " Hie, ubi opus est, 

 Non verentur; illic, ubi nihil opus est, ibi verentur." 



" They have no shame when they ought to have it, but 

 when they ought not to be ashamed, they have it." 



T. J. BlJCKTON. 



Lichfield. 



An Essat of Afflictions (2 nd S. ix. 388. 

 432.) — I am much obliged to Lord Monson for 

 the information he has given respecting the author 

 of this rare little book ; but wish to offer a few 

 words in reply to his Note. I cannot immediately 

 refer to a copy of the volume, and must confess 

 that I do not remember the monogram. As, 

 however, it is some months since I saw the book, 

 it is very possible that I did notice it without 

 being able to make it out. It often happens that 

 these devices are plain enough to those who have 

 the key to them, but are scarcely to be deciphered 

 without some such aid, at least by ordinary 

 readers. 



I believe that the Bodleian Library has re- 

 cently acquired a copy of the " Essay " with the 

 " Antidote against Error," in one volume. 



There can be no doubt that the word " gar- 

 rison" has frequently been used for (what we 



