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Battle of Brunnanburg (2nd S. ii. 229.) -Besides the statement by Sharon Turner, alluded to by your correspondent, that Anlaff, the Norwegian, "entered the Humber, with a fleet of 615 ships," immediately previous to the battle of Brunnanburg, he makes another statement, a few pages further on, under date 941, that Anlaff renewed his attack in that year, and "landed at the White Wells, where the broad stream of the Humber flowed." This seems to give an additional probability to his having sailed up that river in 934. Turner supposes that the battle of Brunnanburg was fought in Northumbria, and Thierry fixes the locality at Bamborough. The editor of the new edition of William of Malmsbury says, "it is called Brumby in the Saxon Chronicle, and was probably not far from the Humber." Ethelwerd's Chronicle says, "it was fought at Brunandune," "which a late editor says was at Brumby, in Lincolnshire. It is admitted that the people of Mercia were engaged in this conflict, and that North-humberland and North Mercia are often mistaken one for the other. A note in the new edition of Ingulphus says, " Brunenburgh near the banks of the Humber. Ingulphus calls it Brunford. There is good reason to suppose that Burnham, in the parish of Thornton Curtis, near the Humber, was the scene of this battle. A work now preparing for the press, relative to Bartonon-the-Humber and its neighbourhood will probably throw much light upon the subject.

PISHEY THOMPSON. "A Peep at the Wiltshire Assizes" (2nd S. ii. 229.) In reply to the Query of R. H. B. I trouble you to acquaint him that somewhere about thirty-three years ago, a lady lent me the book of which he speaks; and she told me it was given to her by the author, whom she knew intimately, and who was an attorney at Salisbury, and that his name was But. Or it might probably have been spelled with double t, but of that I do not know, nor do I recollect his Christian name, although she told me. T. L. MORRITT.

Maidstone.

Mr. Leeming's Picture at Hereford Cathedral (2nd S. i. 354.) — Mr. Leeming came to Hereford as a portrait painter, was very successful, and personally much respected; he married a Hereford lady, and died early. The picture represented the Saviour bearing his Cross; the restoration of the cathedral made its removal necessary, and your correspondent will find it put aside in the chapter room, and, if I mistake not, in some jeopardy of being injured. Running the same risk in the same lumber-room (for, though the chapter-room, it is now little better), is a most curious map of the world drawn before America was discovered, and having Jerusalem in the centre. This misinterpretation of Ezekiel v. 5. is

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Merry England (2nd S. ii. 3. 219.) MR. KEIGHTLEY'S attention is called to the Illustrations of the Lives and Writings of Gower and Chaucer, by the Rev. H. J. Todd (1810), in the concluding notes to which will be found an ingenious and elaborate criticism on the word "merry," by "the learned Master of Caius College, Cambridge." He quotes many passages from Chaucer, and other old English poets; he also refers to Psalm lxxxi. 2., "the pleasant harp" (Bible version), "the merry harp" (Prayer book version); and comes to the conclusion since formed by MR. KEIGHTLEY, that "merry" was used in the sense of “pleasant, cheerful, agreeable."

In an article by me called "Is the Nightingale's song merry or melancholy?" and published in Sharpe's Magazine, vol. ii. New Series, p. 281., will be found (as a foot note) the substance of the lengthy disquisition on the word merry by the Rev. H. J. Todd, and "the Master of Caius," whose name I did not then know: it was the Rev. Dr. Davy. CUTHBERT Bede.

English Words terminating in “-il” (2nd S. ii. 47. 119.) Besides those already mentioned by T. J. E. and E. C. H., four such words occur to E. H. A. me, viz. fusil, pasquil, instil, and distil.

Superstition about Human Hair (2nd S. ii. 386, 387.)-In The Pirate (vol. ii. pp. 135, 136., Cadell's edit., Edinburgh, 1831, Norna of the Fitful Head sings to the Spirit of the Winds:

"To appease thee, see, I tear

This full grasp of grizzled hair;
Oft thy breath hath through it sung,
Softening to my magic tongue,
Now, 'tis thine to bid it fly
Through the wide expanse of sky,
'Mid the countless swarms to sail,
Of wild-fowl wheeling on thy gale;
Take thy portion and rejoice, -

Spirit, thou hast heard my voice!" "Norna accompanied these words with the action which they described, tearing a handful of hair with vehemence from her head, and strewing it upon the wind as she continued her recitation. She then shut the casement," &c.

Here the sacrifice of human hair is used by Norna after she fails to find the heart-formed piece of lead, the object of her incantation, and to appease the Spirit of the Storm. The superstition

is, no doubt, the same as that referred to by Fouquè in Sintram and his Companions; although there the lock of the hero's hair is used to raise, not still, the storm. Sir Walter probably used the superstition to suit his own purposes in the novel. Is it known whether this superstition did or does still exist in the Shetland Islands? C. D. L.

How to frighten Dogs (1st S. vii. 240.)- With reference to the device adopted by Ulysses to frighten the dogs of Ithaca, and which is said to be still in use in Greece and Albania, I may state that I have myself seen a Malay at Singapore squat down with his back towards a strange dog, and look at him from between his legs. In this instance, the experiment was perfectly successful, as the brute scampered off in a fright, looking back now and then to see what sort of monster it was which carried his head in that unwonted place. But I have heard that once a Malay playing the trick before an English bull-dog, was seized hold of in that part of him which was presented conspicuously to "bully." H. E. W. Rev. Charles Hotham (2nd S. ii. 10.) — In answer to the inquiry of C. H. and THOMPSON COOPER, I transcribe the following particulars from Dr. Calamy's Account of the Ejected Ministers: "

"Son to Sir John Hotham, was sometime Fellow of Peter House in Cambridge, and Proctor of the University [1646]. An excellent scholar, both in divinity and human literature. A great philosopher and searcher into the secrets of nature, and much addicted to chymistry. After his ejectment [from the rectory of Wigan in Lancashire] he went to the West Indies, but returned to England. In his younger years he had studied judicial astrology, but gave express orders in his will that all his papers and books relating to that art should be burned." - Vol. ii. p. 413.

Tunbridge Wells.

JOSHUA WILSON.

Germination of Seeds (2nd S. ii. 117. 198. 239.) Has T. W. ever observed the growth of wild camomile in places where habitations have been, sometimes marking the precise ground-plan of the buildings? I have repeatedly noticed these square patches in various parts of England, and I have reason to think that in more than one in

the afterwards beautiful, and unfortunate, Lady Hamilton. Can any of your readers tell me if it was so? Moore also alludes to this subject in another place, where he says that one of our poets, I forget which, went to Malvern, where this earth bath had been established; and as the poet could not find auditors to hear his lines, he revenged himself by reading his productions to the individuals who were earthed up to the neck, feeling assured that if his audience were not delighted, at least, they were patient listeners. BAC.

Modern Judaism (2nd S. ii. 148.) — I would refer the querist on this subject to The Transactions of the Parisian Sanhedrim (1807), which was convened by the great Napoleon, for the purpose of obtaining some official definition of modern Judaism, at least as far as the French Jews were concerned. Grace Aguilar's works could also be read with advantage and interest. GOODWYN BARMBY. "Sewers," ," "Blawn-sheres," "Sewells," &c. (2nd S. ii. 65. 237.) — My authority for reading the word sewells I transcribe for Q. from Ellis's Letters, 2nd Series, vol. ii. p. 61. (the original is in Cotton MS. Faust. vii. 205.):

"We fownde one Mr. Grenefelde, a gentilman of Bukynghamshire, getheryng up part of the said bowke leiffs (as he saide), there to make him sewells or blawn-sherrs to kepe the dere within the woode, thereby to have the better cry with his howndes."

The passage I had already inserted in my "William of Wykeham and his Colleges."

MACKENZIE WALCOTT, M.A.

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Engraved Portraits (2nd S. ii. 210.) — There is now in course of publication La Manuel de L'Amateur D'Estampes, contenant Un Dictionnaire des Graveurs, et un Repertoire des Etampes, etc.; Un Dictionnaire des Monogrammes des Graveurs, et une Table Méthodique des Etampes décrites par M. A. L. Blanc: Paris, chez P. Jannet, Rue de Richelieu, en Livraisons. 7 or 8 livraisons are at present in publication. The work is very copious: full of information, and of course useful to the collector. It is far more extensive than Bromley, or than the Catalogue of the Evanses.

C. F.

stance they mark the site of buildings belonging-Probably this phrase, or its equivalent, may be "Standing in another's Shoes" (2nd S. ii. 187.) to a very remote period; in one instance that of a Roman villa. I do not pretend to account for this, but I think it might be a guide to the archæologist in making excavations.

Kenilworth.

G. M. Z.

Premature Interments (2nd S. ii. 233.)-ARTERUS sends a cutting respecting Dr. Graham and a lady being buried for six hours in his earth bath. This reminds me that in Moore's Diary, &c., it is asserted that the young lady who was Dr. Graham's "assistant" on these occasions was no other than

found in many languages; the legal use of the shoe is of remote antiquity. We read in Ruth, iv. 7. :

"Now this was the manner in former time in Israel concerning redeeming and concerning changing, for to confirm all things: a man plucked off his shoe, and gave it to his neighbour; and this was a testimony in Israel.” So, likewise, in Psalms, lx. 8.: "Over Edom will I cast out my shoe,"-God's promise to David of victory over the Edomite: vide 2 Sam. viii. 14.

DELTA.

Early Illustrated English Versions of Ariosto (2nd S. ii. 173.)-The first English translation of Ariosto is that of Sir John Harington, of which the following is the title: :

"Orlando Furioso in English Heroical Verse, by John Haringto. Imprinted at London, by Richard Field, dwelling in the Black-friers by Ludgate, 1591. Folio, pp. 496."

The title is in the middle of a neat frontispiece, well executed, by Coxon; in which are introduced portraits of Harington and Ariosto; full-length figures of Mars, Venus, and Cupid. There are other ornamental devices, and a portrait of the author's favourite dog, to which an allusion is made in the notes to Book xli. Each book is preceded by a curious engraving, showing the principal incidents described by the poet at one view. It was again "Imprinted at London, by Richard Field, for John Norton and Simon Waterson, 1607;" and "now thirdly revised and amended, with the addition of the author's Epigrams: London, printed by G. Miller, for J. Parker, 1634." The frontispiece to the third edition was re-engraved, and the portraits and figures reversed. The other prints are from the same copper-plates, but have undergone the process of re-touching. EDWARD F. RIMBAULT.

Mortuaries (2nd S. ii. 172.) —

"Mortuaries. The second best animal was of old paid upon the death of any person to the incumbent, in satisfaction for all tithes designedly or undesignedly subtracted by the deceased during his lifetime. But now, by stat. Hen. VIII. c. 6., no man shall pay a mortuary except he died possessed of goods to the value of ten marks. If he have ten marks, but under 301., he shall pay 3s. 6d.; if above 301. and under 407., then 6s. 8d.; if above 407. then he shall pay 10s.; but nowhere more than hath been accustomed." Johnson's Vade Mecum, i. 255. [203.]

I presume mortuaries are seldom claimed, except where persons die worth 40. They are due to the clergyman of the parish where such persons die. I have myself claimed and received them for parishioners who have been buried elsewhere.

E. H. A.

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"Take a hair of the dog that bit you" (2nd S. ii. 239.)- For the information of R. W. B. I send the following. As the song is very short I send you the whole of it; the date of the same may be surmised from its reference to Lilly the astrologer:

"If any so wise is that sack he despises,

Let him drink his small beer and be sober, And while we drink and sing, As if it were spring, He shall droop like the trees in October. But be sure, over night, if this dog you do bite, You take it henceforth for a warning, Soon as out of your bed, to settle your head, With a hair of his tail in the morning. "Then be not so silly To follow old Lilly, There's nothing but sack that can tune us, Let his Ne assuescas be put in his cap-case, Sing Bibito Vinum Jejunus. Then if any so wise is, &c."

DOT.

It appears that our amusing diarist derived a benefit from this proverbial recipe. Pepys says, under April 3, 1661 :

"Up among my workmen, my head akeing all day from last night's debauch. At noon dined with Sir W. Batten and Pen, who would have me drink two good draughts of sack to-day, to cure me of my last night's disease, which I thought strange, but I think find it true." J. Y.

"Stunt" (2nd S. ii. 237.)— Ray gives the same definition of this word as Halliwell does, and derives it from the A.-S. stunt, which Bosworth explains to mean blunt, stupid, foolish. Ray calls it a Lincolnshire word. He hints at its derivation from the verb to stand; and in Lincolnshire anything which seems to have stopped short of its full growth is called stunted or stinted. The proverb, "He's as stunt as a burnt wong," is rendered in the southeastern division of Lincolnshire "as tough as a burnt wong;" wong (thong) meaning a slip of leather, generally whit-leather. One of the meanings of tough, as given by Webster, is stiff, not flexible; and certainly a leather wong that had been burnt and shrivelled up would be anything but flexible; it would be stiff, stunt, and obstinate to change. PISHEY THOMPSON,

Stoke Newington.

The House of Brunswick and the Casting Vote (2nd S. ii. 44. 97. 198.)- I have received a communication from Mr. Richard Sainthill, of Cork, in which he informs me that he has in his possession the second edition of a work entitled A History of the House of Brunswick, and bearing the date of 1716. In this work, from the 345th to the 348th page is occupied by a list of the " ayes" and "noes" in the memorable division which placed the Elector of Hanover on the throne of these realms. The list is printed in two parallel columns, and stands thus: "Ayes 118, noes 117." At the bottom of the list of ayes are the following

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Sir John Holland.

Sir Matthew Dudley."

Illustrations of the Simplon (2nd S. ii. 211.)
Does H. J. refer to Brockedon's Passes of the
Alps, published in or about the year which he
mentions (1823)?
H. E. CARRINGTON.

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"As long as mankind shall continue to bestow more liberal applause on their destroyers than on their benefactors, the thirst of military glory will ever be the vice of the most exalted characters." Gibbon's Decline and Fall, chap. I.

I believe that it is Franklin who has a remark (where?) to the effect that when man destroys man, he attaches no shame to the deed, and performs it openly in the light of day (except from fear of punishment); but that when the question is to create one, he hides himself in holes and corners. Man is not the only animal to whom the remark applies; and I cite it as suggesting inquiry and reflection upon an obscure and neglected point in psychological science.

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GÖTZ VON BERLICHINGEN WITH THE IRON HAND. To English readers this personage is well known as the hero of Goethe's tragedy of that name, translated by Sir Walter Scott, in 1799. He flourished in the reign of Maximilian I., and is represented as a zealous champion for the privileges of the free-knights, in opposition to the princes and bishops. In consequence of the feuds in which he was engaged (contrary to the Edict of 1495), he was repeatedly laid under the ban of the Empire. This is all we learn of him from Scott's meagre preface to his translation, but he refers to a Life of Götz published at Nuremberg in 1731, and to Meusel's Inquiry into History, vol. iv. Göethe terms Götz "the mirror of knighthood, noble and merciful in prosperity, dauntless and true in misfortune." However true this may be, the excesses committed by the forces under his guidance obtained him a very evil reputation among the religious communities whose buildings or treasures were spoliated by the undisciplined mob. A remarkable and interesting piece of evidence on this subject is afforded by a memorandum made in a Latin Evangeliary of the fourteenth century, formerly belonging to the monastery of Amerbach, not far from Nordlingen, in Bavaria, which was sold by auction a few years since at Puttick and Simpson's rooms, in which the following testimony is recorded against the iron-handed champion :

"Anno do. 1525, facta est desolacio hujus libri, auro, argento, gemmisque tecti, in vigilia P[h]ilippi et Jacobi, a quodam nobilitaris (sic) titulo insignito, Goëz de Berlingen nomine, et alio rusticana fecis antesignano, Georgio a Ballenbergk; lanio arte, factis vero et artibus homine perfido, latrone, et proprii honoris prodigo; cleri, nobilitatis, ac proprii domini, contra evangelicas tocius quoque naturalis legis sanctiones persequutore infestissimo; ecclesiarum insuper et religiosorum locorum devastatore et exterminatore atrocissimo."

The damaged state of the volume, bereft of its costly covering of gold, silver, and gems, and with some of the leaves sacrilegiously torn out, may perhaps be considered to have afforded sufficient provocation to counterbalance the exceeding wrath and bad Latin of the monkish writer of the memorandum, who may very possibly have been the librarian of Amerbach, when the ruthless hands of Götz or his men were laid on the volume. In recent times, however, the library of Amerbach has been subjected to still greater devastation, and the manuscripts, I believe, entirely dispersed. Many of these, after a devious course, have found, by my means, a resting-place in the British Museum; where, it is to be hoped, no bad imitator of the iron-fisted Götz von Berlichingen, or his followers, may violate their integrity.

F. MADDEN.

PETITIONS OF DR. TITUS OATES.

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Dr. Titus Oates is a name which in English history will be handed down to posterity covered with obloquy his daring insinuations, and the pertinacity with which he adhered to them; in short, his villanous perjuries, which involved in disgrace and ruin many innocent persons, under the pretext of their being participators in the Popish Plot, have earned for him a reputation worthy only of himself; he is known to us but to be despised, while even the cruel treatment to which he was submitted will not gain for him any pity. To all readers of our history the particulars of the celebrated Popish Plot are well known, and the machinations of Dr. Titus Oates have been detailed to us afresh by Mr. Macaulay: I am not therefore about to speak of any facts with which we are already familiar, but shall proceed to lay before your readers two petitions of Dr. Oates to the king, in the year 1697, which have never, to my knowledge, yet been published. They are now deposited in the Public Record Office. The first one is entirely in Oates's handwriting; the other is neatly written on a large open sheet of paper, and was only signed by him; the signatures however have both been cut out at some time previously to the documents being transferred from the Treasury to the Public Record Office, but when, it is not now possible to determine.

Charles II., in reward of Oates's services in disclosing the supposed plot, allowed him a pension of forty pounds per month, which was afterwards withdrawn; he was then prosecuted for perjury, and received a severe sentence, which was carried out in an extreme manner (see Macaulay's History of England, vol. i. p. 484.). On the accession of William III. he was restored to his pension, but in the year 1693 the payments were discontinued, and he made repeated applications to the king, but without success; at last in the year 1697 he petitioned the king thus:

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"I throw my self at your Maties feet and humbly begg that you would graciously be pleased to take my deplorable condition into your Royal Consideration, I having restore me unto at your accession to the Crowne. I have been debarred of the pension your Matie was pleased to contracted severall debts for which I am every day threatened to bee cast into Prison, and I there must perish unles your Matie of your Princely goodness do order mee the sum of 500li, which will in a great measure deliver mee and save my poor self and family from ruine and distruction. I have not clothes worthy to appeare before your Matie, and therefore I humbly present this Memoriall and lay it at your Royall Feet.

(In dorso)

"I am,

"ST,

"Yor Maties most humble and Loyall and Dutifull subject and Servant."

"21 Apr. 1697. Read. "The King will give no more than his allowance."

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