LONDON, SATURDAY, JANUARY 11, 1879. CONTENTS. - N° 263. NOTES:-Notes on Peterborough Cathedral, 21-Shak- Boots, 24-Chaucer's Praise-Schiller's "Song of the Bell" Co. [1262-1274] et anniversar. Henrici Aurifabri et Johannis [Mem. quod feria iida iiijte ebdomade xl missa matuti- Easter is set down on March 27. Aprilis v. Depositio Thoroldi [1069-1089] et Eudonis Maii. [Memorandum quod in ebdomada prima mai xxvii. Depositio dompni Arnewyni abbatis [1055-1063]. QUERIES:-Lamb's "Tales from Shakespear"-English En- xxvi. Deposicio dompni Martini abbatis [de Ramsey, episcoporum et REPLIES:-" Embezzle"-Braham-Bacon on "Hudibras," | Huberti. NOTES ON BOOKS:-Spencer Walpole's "History of Eng- Nates. NOTES ON PETERBOROUGH CATHEDRAL. The Obituary of Peterborough. Prior xxix. Deposicio Willi. Landavensis epi. et anniver- Sept. xxv. Deposicio dompni Willelmi de Wodeford xxx. Deposicio dompni Benedicti abbatis [1177-1194]. xvi. Deposicio dompni Egbrici episcopi [of Durham, xxii. Deposicio dompni Mathie abbatis [1103-1104] et xxviii. Deposicio dompni Roberti de Lyndeseye abbatis Nov. i. Deposicio Lefrici abbatis [died 1066]. viij. Deposicio dompni Johannis de Says [1114-1128] [Mar-1222-1226] et anniversarium Reginaldi de Eastre et iv. Dep. Willi. de Hotot abbatis [1246-1249] et anni- xxiv. Depositio dompni Elfrici archiepiscopi. Februarii xxj. Depositio dompni Andree abbatis [1194- [Memorandum quod in prima ebdomada quadragesime Martii ii. Depositio dompni Johannis de Caleto [1249- xiv. Deposicio dompni Allarii abbatis [1200-1220]. xx. Deposicio dompni Roberti de Sutton abbatis xxvi. Deposicio dompni Ade de Botheby abbatis [1321- xxx. Depos Brandonis [died 1069] et Will. de Water- xxii. Dep. dompni Walteri abbatis [de S. Edmundo, Value of the Endowment of Peterborough Cathedral Revenues of the Colledge of Peterborough. Parcell Notes from the Monastic Custumal. Pedes fratrum non debent lavari in claustro nec in capitulo. Conventus feria iij ante cenam Domini ad orationes sedebunt super bancum sicut faciunt in ecclesia vertentes facies unius chori ad facies alterius. Subsacrista ponat in refectorio die exaltationis S. Crucis xiv. cereos et ij. cereos in capitulo et in locutorio juxta capellam S. Crucis j.; in lanterna cressetum et j. cressetum ante hostium Refectorii. Ad cœnam et prandium...mixtum et vinum et claretum; fratres commorantes ad Oxeneye plenam recipiant communam suam de celario conventus. Clerici admissi in congregationem nostram per tres dies ante suscepcionem habitus in Domo Hospitum commorantes percipiant communam suam viz. singuli singulis diebus j. panem et j. lagenam cerevisie conventualis cum ferculis coquine prout fratribus in refectorio ministratur. in aula abbatis per duos dies commedent et celerarius abbatis nomine abbatis...predictam percipient communam.-Lamb. MS. 198. MACKENZIE E. C. WALCOTT. SHAKSPEARIANA. "HENRY V.," ACT II. sc. 2, L. 61.— "King... And now to our French causes : Who are the late commissioners?" The only explanation I have seen of this passage are, in which he believes to be inauspicious, not the disentanglement. Perhaps his view may be supported by the following quotation from Niccol's description of Franklin : "His beard was ruddie hewe, and from his head A wanton locke it selfe did downe dispread Vpon his backe, to which while he did liue Th' ambiguous name of Elfe-locke he did give.” Sir Thomas Overburie's Vision (1616), p. 48. Franklin's portrait (p. 47) represents him with a long lock of hair, loose and unentangled, on which he seems to have prided himself. WILLIAM GEORGE BLACK. Alfred Terrace, Glasgow. "TEMPEST," ACT IV. sc. 1, L. 64 (5th S. viii. 385; ix. 405; x. 3, 244, 424.)-It may be useful to add another example. In Sacred Principles, Services and Soliloquies; or, a Manual of Devotions, by W. Brough, D.D., Dean of Gloucester, 4th ed., London, 1659, p. 228, the author mentions an art which will be helpful against gluttony: "The Art is His Pionery; To Undermine Gluttony by Works of Charity." W. C. B. Rochdale. Collect for the Second Sunday in Advent is com"LEARNING."-The word "learning" in the monly taken to mean the reception of knowledge, whereas it really implies the imparting of it, as it Saokaλiav. Wielif has "teaching" (1380); but is taken from Romans xv. 4, where the Greek is Tyndale has "learning" (1526), in which he is noticed in the works on the required alterations of followed by the subsequent versions. This is not the A. V. nor on the obsolete words, so far as I have seen. this use of "to learn" is frequent in the Old It is commonly supposed that, though Testament, it only occurs once in the New Testa The alteration to rate, as derivable from the Latin "ratus-i, established, approved, confirmed," had once suggested itself to me. But no alteration seems required; the Syndici lati-, or the late commissioners, are, I take it, the chosen commissioners those who had been chosen or selected, but who had not yet received their sign-manualment, Acts vii. 22, where audeon is translated “learned” in all the versions, including Wiclif's, credentials or commissions. Accordingly Henry except the Rhemish, which has "instructed." proceeds to hand to them documents which they take to be the said commissions. This I believe to be one of the very few examples where Shakespere followed a fashion of the day. The gallants coined "new-minted oaths," he adopted a new and literate etymology for words in ordinary use. B. NICHOLSON. "ROMEO AND JULIET," ACT I. sc. 4, L. 91."And bakes the Elf-locks in foule sluttish haires Which, once untangled, much misfortune bodes." This is the reading usually adopted, and is supported with much ability by Dr. Legg in his "Note upon the Elf-locks in Romeo and Juliet" (Transactions, New Shakspere Society, 1875-6, pt. ii. p. 191). Mr. P. A. Daniel, in the revised edition published by the N. S. Society, prefers 66 once entangled," because it is the entanglement A similar translation of διδασκαλίαν, 2 Tim. have access; but the Bishops' Bible and the iii. 16, is avoided in all the versions to which I A. V. have "doctrine.", Further on in the verse Tyndale has "to instruct," in which he is followed Wiclif translates aideíav by "learning." But by the rest, the A. V. having "for instruction." ED. MARSHALL, F.S.A. Sandford-St.-Martin. ST. DIONIS BACKCHURCH, LONDON: BEQUEST FOR DAILY SERVICE.-Sir Robert Geffery made his bequest for the maintenance of daily service in the parish church of St. Dionis Backchurch in the city of London (3rd S. vi. 182) in the following words : "I give unto the Master and Keepers or Wardens and Commonalty of the art or mystery of Ironmongers, London, the sum of four hundred pounds of lawful money of England, nevertheless upon the Trust and to the Intent and purpose that the said Master and Keepers or Wardens and Commonalty shall and will, by and with the Consent and advice of my Executors hereafter named and of John Midgley of London, Scrivener, or the Survivors and Survivor of them, as soon as they conveniently can lay out the said sum of four hundred pounds in a purchase of lands or houses and Ground rents of Inheritance in fee simple within the City of London or as near to the same City as conveniently may be. And the same Lands, Houses, and Ground Rents being so purchased shall settle the same in such manner as Counsel shall advise for an allowance to some person to read and celebrate Divine Service in the said parish church of St. Dionys Backchurch twice every day in the week yearly and every year for ever (except Sundays and such Holy Days when the said service and preaching shall be appointed and had in the said Church), at the hours and times now and heretofore used in the said Church, according to the Rubrick and Liturgy of the Church of England as now by law established. And my mind and will is that the Rents and profits of the said lands, Houses, or Ground rents so to be purchased as aforesaid shall be by the said Master and Keepers or Wardens and Commonalty of the said Company from time to time as the same shall be by them received paid to the Minister or Curate of the said Parish of St. Dionis Backchurch, who shall take upon himself or shall be appointed for the reading and celebrating of Divine Service in manner as aforesaid, allow ing thereout fifty shillings per annum to the clerk of the said parish for his officiating there. Provided always, and my mind and will is, that in case there shall be any failure or neglect in reading of prayers in the said parish Church at any time for the space of more than three days together, that then the rents and profits of the said premises so to be purchased as aforesaid shall go and be paid to the Hospital of Bethlehem and Bridewell aforesaid for ever." The will of Sir Robert Geffery, knight and alderman, from which the foregoing is an extract, was proved at Doctors' Commons in the city of London, March 13, 1703, the testator having died towards the close of the previous month at an advanced age, and been buried in his private vault at St. Dionis Backchurch, Fenchurch Street, London. LONDINENSIS. THE DUKE OF CLARENCE ON THE CONVENTION OF CINTRA.-The following letter, in the collection of the Baron de Bogoushevsky, and addressed by H.R.H. the Duke of Clarence, afterwards William IV., to an unknown correspondent, seems worthy of preservation. It occupies four pages of quarto gilt-edged paper, and is in the duke's own handUndated, it appears from internal evidence to have been written in October, 1808, and it was probably addressed to one of his former shipmates holding office at Stonehouse, near Plymouth. The letter not only relates to the proceedings in connexion with the Convention of Cintra, but to other important events then occurring by writing. land and sea. "Bushy House, Monday night (1808?). "Dear Sir,-In answer to yours of 20th and 30th Sept. I am to observe that having directed my young man of business to forward to you at Stonehouse the Warrant I am surprised it has not reached your hands: but upon the receipt of your last inquiry I have again written, and make no doubt on Thursday morning this and the Warrant will find you and the Ladies at breakfast. "The convention in Portugal is still as unsatisfactory as ever, and indeed inexplicable: De Susa is right, our government neither could nor would believe the articles as he presented them on 4th September and as they turned out to be true. Ministers received the news of Sir A. Wellesley's two actions on 1st Sept. late in the evening, and tho' on 4th De Susa had from the Bishop of Oporto the Articles of the Convention, yet not till the night of 15th do the Cabinet hear from Sr. Hew Dalrymple: the whole transaction is as disgraceful as it is novel: a whole quire of paper would not detail my ideas on this infamous business: but everything must bring itself before your discriminating mind. "Till now I think our government have acted with prudence towards Spain: but are the ministers sure that the Spaniards will let our troops into their country or is this immense armament destined for Italy: I think the French very vulnerable in that quarter and particularly in Naples: but to return to the convention, I rejoice there is but one sentiment throughout the Empire: all my letters from Scotland and Ireland convey the same language on the business: investigation must ensue, and cannot I think be avoided. "Our fleet in the Baltic have really done their duty, and I flatter myself if the Russian fleet cannot find its way to our ports it will be destroyed: but what is to become of Alexander in his interview with Bonaparte: is he to follow the fate of the Spanish Bourbons? The Austrian Francis ought to be on his guard and active, for this meeting at Erfurth forebodes no good either to Austria or Turkey. At present I will not say anything on home politics: only in your next inform me in what manner the Catholic Bishops are appointed in Canada. My best wishes and compliments attend the Ladies, and ever believe me, dear Sir, yours sincerely, 66 "WILLIAM." CHARLES ROGERS. Grampian Lodge, Forest Hill, S.E. ANOTHER SURVIVAL.-It may not be undesirable, in the interest of future generations, to record the fact that up to January 1, 1878, all registered letters were, at the Post Office, secured and rendered conspicuous with a piece of very narrow dark-green ribbon or a piece of blue twine, which passed round the letter in two lines, cutting one another at right angles at or near its centre. The change in the Post Office regulations, which substituted for the ribbon or twine two dark-blue came into operation on the date just named, has ink lines, printed on official envelopes, by authority of the Postmaster General, and cutting one another exactly as those of ribbon or twine did of old. In short, the ink lines are a survival of the ribbon WM. PENGELLY. or twine. Torquay. day, Feb. 12, 1788], Benjamin Disraeli, of Grafton BENJAMIN DISRAELI, 1788.—“This day [TuesSt., Gent. (who served his apprenticeship to Mr. Richard Bayly), was admitted and sworn a public notary, before the Right Worshipful Stephen Ratcliff, Judge of his Majesty's Court of Prero gative in Ireland" (Dublin Chronicle). I made Kensington, W. A NEW YEAR'S GIFT.-The custom of expressing esteem, respect, or affection by the interchange of new year's gifts was, two hundred years ago, even more universal than now; nor was it confined to individuals, for corporate bodies sought to obtain or keep the goodwill of noblemen and other persons of influence in their city, borough, or county by sending to them at this season rich gifts of wine, sugar, &c., or, what was more useful, a purse of gold. Thus we find the Corporation of Leicester-as may be gathered from the chamberlains' accounts-very frequently sending new year's gifts to the lord lieutenant of the county, to members of the Grey family at Bradgate, to the Hastings family at the Abbey of Leicester, and to others. The practice, however, so far as the members of the Corporation of Leicester were concerned, could hardly be called an interchange of civilities, as it was almost entirely a one-sided matter that is, they gave but seldom received. However this rule, like all others, had its exception, as the following will show: On Jan. 1, 1610-11, Mistress Elizabeth Haslewood presented to the town two corslets, one pike, a musket, a sword, and a dagger, which she sent by her serving-man to the hall on New Year's Day. Having presented the gift of his mistress he was rewarded with a donation of five shillings for his trouble, and the mayor (Master Thomas Parker) and his brethren, wishing to express their appreciation of Mistress Haslewood's courtesy and liberality, sent as a new year's gift "a runlett of wyne and one suger lofe," which cost together 31s. It would seem that the two corslets were not new ones, for they were dressed and trimmed at the cost of 16s., after which, frames having been set up in the parlour of the Town Hall, they were hung up there-witnesses to the martial and patriotic spirit of Mistress Elizabeth Haslewood. THOMAS NORTH, F.S.A. BILL FOR HANGING AND BOILING A FRIAR.— The following note, supplied by a correspondent to the Kentish Observer, may be worth preserving in "N. & Q.":— "In the present age of religious tolerance and high price of labour the following may not be uninteresting. It is extracted from an old magazine, and is an authentic copy of a document of the date: Account of the hanging and parboiling of Friar Stone at Canterbury in 1539. Paid for half a tod of timber to make a pair of gallows for to hang Friar Stone, 2s. 6d. ; to a carpenter for making the same gallows and the dray, 1s. 4d.; to a labourer that digged the holes, 3d.; other expenses of setting up the same, and carriage of the timber from Stablegate to the dungeon, 18.; for a hurdle, 6d. ; for a load of wood, and for a horse to draw him to the dungeon, 2s. 3d.; paid two men that sat at the kettle and parboiled him, ls.; to three men that carried his quarters to the gates and sat them up, 18.; for halters to hang him, and Sandwich cord, and for screws, 1s.; for a woman that scowered the kettle, 2d.; to him that did execution, 3s. 8d.; total, 14s. 8d." 5th 8. XI. JAN. 11, '79.] NOTES AND QUERIES. chains. The upper portions are of rounded leather to cover the knees and most of the thighs. The boots bear the maker's name, and the place "Paris," and seem scarcely to have been worn at all. They are said to weigh ten pounds each. I suspect that they are unique in this country for their age and It was stated complete state of preservation. erroneously in a newspaper last year that these boots were discovered in an old house at Clerkenwell. Their true history is as follows: Upon opening a walled-up cupboard in the ancient building of Bagshot Park, Surrey, about the year 1837, there was found in it a large quantity of old Among them were armour and accoutrements. these boots, which were given to the steward of the estate, a Mr. Ravenscroft. They were carefully kept by his family, and are now owned by his son. I am indebted to the present Mr. Ravenscroft for allowing me to examine the boots and for this history of them. H. W. HENFREY. CHAUCER'S PRAISE.-Anthony Nixon, in his "Christian Navy, Wherein is playnely described the perfit course to sayle to the Hauen of Eternall happinesse. London, Simon Stafford, 1602," quotes the description of Hypocrisy in the Englisht Romaunt of the Rose (v. 13-14, 1. 413-448, edit. Morris), to "Another thing was done they write," "They leesen God, and eke his raigne,"- But that long since it hath been paynted playne To touch that he did often vse to say, Thus hath the golden pen of Chaucer old, That each man passing by, might playnely know F. J. F. SCHILLER'S "SONG OF THE BELL."-The North German Gazette having done me the favour to commend my translation of Lenore for following both the sense and sound of the original, I wish to remark as to my translation of the Song of the Bell, which was a more arduous task, that I have failed in one instance to follow exactly the metre of Schiller's original. I found myself beaten by the couplet, "Thiere wimmern In all other parts of the poem I have followed (and wherever else the bell appears to be tolling). BAD GRAMMAR.-As a pendant to the recent "The beautiful Miss Port, her grand-niece and adopted child, sitting one day writing in Mrs. Delany's drawingroom, heard a knock at the door: she of course inquired what ungrammatically; but grammar appears to have 'Who's there?' 'It's me,' replied a man's voice, somebeen much disdained in our great-grandmothers' days. the knocking was repeated. Me is impertinent, and Me may stay where he is,' answered Miss Port, on which may go about his business,' reiterated the lady; but the unknown party persevering in a third knock, she rose to ascertain who was the intruder, and, to her dismay, had been unwittingly addressing with so little ceremony. found it was no other than King George himself that she at all,' replied his Majesty; 'you was very right to be This royal disregard of All she could utter was What shall I say?' Nothing cautious who you admitted.' grammar seems to have furnished a precedent for that of the Court and of society in general.' It may be added that Miss Port, the heroine of the above anecdote, afterwards married Mr. Benjamin Waddington, a Monmouthshire squire, and that her daughter is the present Lady Llanover. E. WALFORD, M.A. note on Hampstead, N.W. "WESSEL," "WESLEY," OR "VESSEL" CUP.I see that MR. THISELTON DYER, in his interesting "Christmas in England" (5th S. x. 483), vessel-cup" as if it speaks of a "wesley-bob" or were no longer customary in the neighbourhood of Leeds. I can testify that in Wakefield it is still quite common for children to go from house to house with a box-often a fancy soap-box or suchlike representative of the stable or manger, retaining its original inscription, &c., on the inside of the lid-lined with coloured paper, and about half filled with evergreens, on which repose three dolls in ordinary dolls' costume, but supposed to represent Mary, Joseph, and the Babe; red-cheeked "wessel-bob," "crackers"), are also put in. The children call "wessel-cup" or apples, oranges, &c. (I think I have seen the whole affair a announce themselves by singing, to its proper and exhibit it from house to house, where they tune, the charming old traditional carol, "Here we come a-wesseling among the leaves so green," which is, I think, in Bramley and Stainer's collection. |