After

there is no doubt that a good lens, like a good watch, may occasionally be purchased at a low rate, the only certain way of securing one is to go to a respectable dealer, and pay a good price for a good article. taking much pains, and witnessing the comparative powers of different lenses, we recommend all who can afford it, and especially those who wish to take portraits, to secure one made by Voightlander. These may always be procured in their genuine state of his sole agents in this country, Messrs. Knight and Co. Cheaper lenses are however to be met with, such as the fluid lens made by Mr. Archer; and we have lately seen some views in Wales, taken by that gentleman with one of his own lenses, which are as beautiful as can be desired.-ED.]

Photography in the open Air (Vol. vi., p. 251.).Is it too much to ask of C. P. S. to kindly give us some account of his apparatus, modus operandi, and formulæ; as I think by so doing he will be conferring a great favour on many of us amateur photographers?

Is his camera a modification of Archer's?

A month or two ago I went on a photographic tour in Cheshire; and my plan was to prepare several papers by Talbot's process in the morning, fill my slides, and take the rest in a book; obtain permission somewhere to change the papers, and then develop all on my return home. THOMAS LAWRENCE.

Ashby-de-la-Zouch.

Replies to Minor Queries. Glossary of old Scientific and Medical Terms.P. C. S. S. begs leave to acquaint Bopéas, who (at p. 290. of the present Volume of "N. & Q.") requests information on this subject, that he will find an explanation of most of the terms which he cites, by referring to Lexicon Chymicum, &c., per Gulielmum Johnson: Lond. 8vo. 1652. As the work is not common, P. C. S. S. subjoins the interpretation therein given to some of the barbarous words quoted by Bopéas, viz.:

"Abesasum, Lutum Rotæ. Abesum, Calx viva.

Abric, Est sulphur.

Achamech, Est superfluitas argenti.
Acartum, Est Minium.
Acadzir, Est Stannum.
Acchatum, Est Rurichalcum.
Adibat, Est Mercurius."

P. C. S. S.

Tonson and the Westminsters (Vol. v., p. 585.).— This print, alluded to by your correspondent, is the frontispiece to a small poetical tract, called Neck or Nothing; a consolatory Letter from Mr. D-nt-n (Dunton) to Mr. C. C-rll (Curll), upon his being Tost in a Blanket, &c. Sold by Charles King in Westminster Hall, 1716.

The following extract may be a satisfactory answer to your querist:

"Come, hold him fair; we'll make him know

What 'tis to deal with scholars.' 'Oh !'
Quoth Edmund. Now, without disguise,
Confess,' quo' they, 'thy rogueries.
What makes you keep in garret high
Poor bards ty'd up to poetry?'

'I'm forced to load them with a clog,
To make them study.' 'Here's a rogue
Affronts the school; we'll make thee rue it.
'Indeed I never meant to do it!'
• No?

Didst thou not th' oration print
Imperfect, with false Latin in 't?''
'O, pardon!' 'No, Sir; have a care;
False Latin's never pardon'd here!'
'Indeed I'll ne'er do so again;

Pray handle me like gentlemen.'

Oh! how th' unlucky urchins laugh'd,
To think they'd maul'd thee fore and aft :
'Tis such a sensible affront!
Why, Pope will write an Epick on 't!
Bernard will chuckle at thy moan,
And all the booksellers in town,
From Tonson down to Boddington,
Fleet Street and Temple Bar around,
The Strand and Holborn, this shall sound:
For ever this shall grate thine ear,
Which is the way to Westminster ?"

For further information regarding Dunton and
Curll, see Pope's Dunciad, and notes to same.
S. WMSON.

The Crystal Palace.-Who designed it? (Vol. vi., pp. 196. 279.). Having observed the above Query in your paper of the 28th August (Vol. vi., p. 196.), I am induced to inform you that I have seen sketches of Mr. Loudon's (executed in the early part of 1818), of conservatories and other large iron buildings, with roofs on the ridge and furrow, and various other forms; and Messrs. W. & D. Bailey, of Holborn, under his superintendence, erected for Colonel Beaumont, Bretton Hall, Yorkshire, a curvilinear conservatory of a domical shape, sixty-five feet diameter, forty feet high, the water being conveyed from the upper dome by the sixteen cast-iron ornamental columns that supported it. The conservatory was designed in the year 1820 and executed in 1825, and was taken down by his successor in 1832, being in the same state of perfection as when first erected, thus verifying the opinion given, at the time of its erection, by the celebrated engineer (Mr. Alexander Galloway), "that the whole is, in point of execution and material, a masterpiece of utility and elegance." Messrs. Bailey also erected for Mr. Loudon, at his residence at Bayswater, in the year 1818, a small example of the ridge and furrow roof.

Rhymes upon Places (Vol. vi., p. 281.).—I subjoin (from memory) another and, I submit, a superior version of the lines cited from Noble:

"Ramsey, the rich of gold and of fee;
Thorney, the flower of the fen country.
Crowland, so courteous of meat and of drink;
Peterborough the proud, as all men do think.
And Sawtrey, by the way, that old abbaye
Gave more arms in one day than all they."

I find the following in the Introduction to the Minute Books of the Spalding Society, p. 73.:

"Skirbeck is a rectory, the parish church dedicated to St. Nicholas. Its parish surrounds the borough of Boston, whence that vulgar distich

Scriveners' Company of London (Vol. vi., p. 273.). When did this company become extinct? By 41 George III. c. 79. s. 13., all notaries public in London, or within three miles thereof, are required to take up their freedom in this company. C. H. COOPER.

Cambridge.

"The bright Lamp that shone in Kildare's holy Fane" (Vol. v., pp. 87. 211.; Vol. vi., p. 86.). — Some time ago there was sold, in Dublin, a figure of St. Bridget, clasping in her arms the Round Tower of Kildare! This is very remarkable, and seems to show some connexion between the Round Tower and the saint. It was in a Dublin newspaper that I read the account, but unfortunately made no "note of it" at the time; or, if I did, I cannot now find it.

R. H.

Lady Day and Feasts of Blessed Virgin Mary (Vol. vi., p. 195.). In answer to your correspondent MR. H. EDWARDS, who inquires how many festivals are yearly celebrated by the church

Our Lady of Mount Carmel.
Our Blessed Lady, Ad Nives.
- The Assumption of the Blessed

September 8.-The Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary. This is Lady Day in Harvest. On the Sunday following the 8th of September, the Name of the Blessed Virgin Mary. On the following Sunday, the Seven Dolours of the Blessed Virgin Mary. September 24.

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Our Lady of Mercy. October 1. Sunday.-The Rosary of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

October 2.

Virgin Mary.

The Maternity of the Blessed

October 3.. The Purity of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

On the second Sunday of November, the Patronage of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

November 21.-The Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

December 8.

Virgin Mary.

The Conception of the Blessed

December 18.-The Expectation of the Blessed

Virgin Mary.

tivals yearly celebrated by the Church in honour of the Virgin Mary, as MR. EDWARDS will see by reference to a Prayer Book: The Presentation of Christ in the Temple, commonly called the Purification of St. Mary the Virgin; and The Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary. R. J. A.

Passage in Jeremy Taylor (Vol. vi., p. 263.). Jeremy Taylor's "fair young German gentleman," who desired his friends, when they wished for his picture, to visit his dead body in the tomb, is found in Camerarius, cent. i. сар. ii. p. 73. † Lancashire Sayings (Vol. vi., p. 174.).—K. may be glad to learn that the answer "a layer-over meddlers young is a common reply in Norfolk as well as Lancashire, when children impertinently put the question, "What have you got

for

there?"

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To lay-over or lay-on, is in Norfolk to beat. So Shakspeare, "Lay on, Macduff.”— Macbeth. E. G. R. Hammer (Vol. vi., p. 29.).—What is the meaning of "Hammer in names of places in Norway? In Icelandic (the old Scandinavian) this word, besides the name of the tool, so called also in English, means also a rock or cliff, and probably is applicable to the particular localities in the names of which it occurs. W. C. TREVELYAN.

Harvesting on Sundays (Vol. vi., pp. 199. 278.). A person may consult Bishop Jeremy Taylor's Ductor Dubitantium, who, if I recollect right, is in favour of attending to corn-harvest in precarious weather. A. B. United Church of England and Ireland (Vol. vi., p. 246.). The authority for this phrase is the fifth article of the Union ·

"That the churches of England and Ireland be united into one Protestant episcopal church, to be called The United Church of England and Ireland."

M.

Old Montague House (Vol. vi., p. 241.).-X. is incorrect about old Montague House. Not a stone of it remains inside or out. The print from the Ladies' Pocket-Book, 1781, I have never seen. There are, however, two others in my possession; one by Paul Sandly, published May, 1783, aquatinta; the

JAYDEE.

P. C. S. S. has a dim recollection of having heard the rhyme "Grow-y used to express "Germinal." In the version of Mr. Ellis's drollery, which was repeated to him many years ago, the months were arranged in quaternions. P. Č. S. S.

"Patience, and shuffle the Cards" (Vol. vi., p. 290.). We owe this saying to Cervantes. See Don Quixote, part ii. chap. xxiii., which relates the adventure of the cave of Montesinos, "justly esteemed one of the most exquisite of all the inventions of Cervantes." My quotation is from the interesting note in the edition entitled The History of the Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha; translated from the Spanish, by Motteux. A new Edition, with copious Notes, &c. 5 vols. 8vo. Edinburgh, 1822.

King Louis XI. uses the same metaphor in a confidential whisper to Dunois, one of the Paladins of his court. See Quentin Durward, chap. viii., C. FORBES. and note by the author. Temple.

Maiden-hair Fern (Vol. vi., pp. 30. 108. 180. 280.).-On the 25th October, 1848, I found that most beautiful of the British ferns, the Adiantum (Capillus Veneris) growing in the greatest luxuriance on some wet limestone rocks near the little village of Aberthaw, on the coast of Glamorganshire, about a quarter of a mile to the eastward of the Coast Guard watch-house. As it was growing under the almost inaccessible ledges of the rock, and in great abundance, probably it may continue to grace the British Flora for many years, and escape the fate of the beautiful Asplenium Marinum, which was wantonly destroyed on the Red Rose Rocks, near Liverpool, in the summer of

1849.

still

I would add that I collected some fronds nearly eight inches in length, being the longest I have seen, except from the Isle of Arran, co. Galway. F. B.

Sandgate.

Misprints in Prayer Books (Vol. vi., p. 170.). Although there is no rubric in the Litany for the insertion of special petitions for any who desire

the congregation's prayers, yet the custom is so universal that it leads one to suppose there must have been once authority for it. Indeed, in a little book called The Institutions of the Church of England of Divine Authority, by the Rev. Ĵ. Baylee, D.D., I read :

"It is often asked, may there not be occasions in which additional petitions are needful [in the public service] according to the varying circumstances of society? To this we answer, that our Liturgy makes provision for this. In the Litany there is one of the petitions in which the minister is at perfect liberty to insert any supplications he deems expedient for those of his congregation who need it: and again, in the Thanksgiving, there is a similar opportunity afforded for returning thanks for mercies received. Before and after the sermon also, he is at liberty to use extempore

prayer."

P. 45. ed. 3.

What is the ground for the last assertion? The pulpit seems little adapted as a place for prayer. A. A. D.

"None of 'em (our Kings) seal'd with any seal of arms before Richard the First; the seals of his Predecessors bearing only the Pourtraicture of the King, sitting in a chair on one side, and on Horseback on the other. This Richard seal'd with a seal of two Lyons; because the Conqueror (for England) bore two Lyons; But King John (in the right of Aquitaine, the Duke whereof bore one Lyon) was the first that seal'd with three; and all our succeeding Kings have follow'd his Example."

May not the lions be typical of the royal We, and have occasioned the use of Nos, instead of Ego, in grants and Charters? FRANCISCUS.

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General Wolfe's Family (Vol. vi., p. 245.).; General Wolfe was never married. E. H.

"Roma tibi subito" (Vol. vi., p. 209.).—BOTICUS inquires whence comes the palindrome :

"Roma tibi subito motibus ibit amor."

I send in reply a short extract from D'Israeli's Curiosities of Literature, p. 108., edit. 1840: "The following lines, by Sidonius Apollinaris, were once infinitely admired :

Signa te signa temere me tangis et angis.'
Roma tibi subito motibus ibit amor.'

I have read, I know not where, a legend, in which the above two lines are said, if I remember

Frebord; Deer Leap (Vol. v., pp. 595. 620. &c.).-At an inclosure of a parish in Lincolnshire, under act of parliament, about forty years since, the proprietor of an adjoining lordship claimed an allotment in lieu of a deer's leap. F. L.

"Nobilis antiquo veniens" (Vol. vi., p. 127.).— Perhaps the reference given in Compitum, bk. i. ch. ix. p. 284. London, Dolman, 1848, to the epitaph "Nobilis antiquo veniens," &c. on Chronopius, Bishop of Perigueux, may, if consulted, help K. P. D. E. to an answer. It is as follows: "Père Dupuy, l'Estat de l'Eglise du Perigord, tom. i."

E. D. R.

"Sun" of the Feminine Gender (Vol. vi., p. 232.). -The following passage seems to show that the peculiarity adverted to by COWGILL had not ceased at the middle of the sixteenth century:

"I have learned, and thereafter speake, that a sinner cannot turne without the grace of God, which God distributeth by degrees, as the sonne sheweth herselfe in the morning, in whom there is encrease by successe Bishop tyl the sonne come to the highest at noon." Gardiner, Declaration (against George Joye), fol. clvi., Lond. 1546. C. H.

St. Catharine's Hall, Cambridge.

Cross-legged Effigies (Vol. v., pp. 136. 227.).At Thurlaston, in this county, in the parish church, under the second arch from the east, which divides the chancel from the chantry at the east end of the north aisle, is a cross-legged effigy, not in armour, but having a tunic only, which is gathered up over the knee; the feet rest upon a lion. This effigy laid originally under a canopied arched recess in the north wall of the chantry, and in Nichols's time had a fragment of the inscription visible, which cannot now be discerned. The legs are broken off at the ankles, but enough remains to show the cross-legged position, which has been overlooked by the historian. THOS. L. WALKER.

Leicester.

Collars of SS (Vol. v., pp. 227. &c.).—At Thurlaston, in this county, in the chancel of the parish church is a large and handsome altar tomb of alabaster, with recumbent effigies of a knight and his lady, each of whom wears a collar of SS. This tomb originally stood in the north-east corner of the sacrarium, but has been removed further westward under an arch which divides the chancel from the chantry chapel at the east end of the north aisle. It is figured in Nichols's History