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Wellington: why chosen as the Duke's Title (Vol. vi., p. 462.). -E. H. A. asks why the Duke of Wellington chose that title when he was raised to the peerage.

He selected the title of Wellington because that town is near the little village of Wensley, which bears a close resemblance in its name to that of Wesley, the old family name, since altered to Wellesley.

Efforts were made to purchase an estate in the neighbourhood of Wellington, but without success. A CANTAB.

Charles Inglis, first Bishop of Nova Scotia (Vol. vi., p. 151.). - In addition to the information afforded by the editor of "N. & Q.," permit me to add, that Dr. Inglis was pastor of Trinity Church, New York, from 1777 to 1783. In 1809 he became a member of the Nova Scotia Council. He was the first Protestant Bishop of any British colonial possession in either hemisphere. His son, John Inglis, was consecrated Bishop of Nova Scotia in 1825. Sabine, in his American Loyalists, says that Charles Inglis died in 1816, in the eightysecond year of his age, which would make the year of his birth 1744.* How does this agree with the statement (p. 151. "N. & Q."), that he taught a free school at Lancaster, Pennsylvania, from 1755 to 1758 (he must have been a young preceptor); and of his admission to Holy Orders in 1759, when he could have been but fifteen years old according to the statement of Mr. Sabine.

Philadelphia.

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Alioquin (Vol. vi., p. 389.). — M. A. asks "by what ellipse the word alioquin reached the sense of otherwise?" Allow me to suggest the word modo in the ablative case, which is often used in compound words of this class, solummodo, tantummodo, Perhaps, however, there is &c. ellipse in the The word is written alioqui as well as alioquin; and qui is the ablative of the pronoun quis, as may be seen in quicum, which is common in Terence, &c. If we adopt the first explanation, the word alioquin is similar to our otherwise; except that the syllable qui or quin is unmanage

case.

[* Our correspondent's arithmetic is faulty. It would make the year of his birth 1734, not 1744.-ED.]

able, or nearly so. If we adopt the latter, qui= how, as we say "anyhow." The Latins said "otherhow," we say "otherwise." B. H. CoWPER.

Pepys charged with Treason (Vol. vi., p. 411.).— LORD BRAYBROOKE is unable to supply any information on the subject of the two extracts from The Domestic Intelligence, printed in "N. & Q.," Vol. vi., p. 411. They were brought under his notice when the Diary was in the press, in 1825; but as the whole story was evidently a fabrication, and one of the paragraphs completely falsified the other, the circumstances were not detailed in the brief memoir of the secretary, prefixed to the journal. It seemed indeed preposterous to imagine that any one conversant with court etiquette, who had only been just liberated on bail, and whose trial for treason was still pending, could have ventured to intrude himself into the royal presence, or have expected to be suffered to kiss the king's hand.

It may be as well to add that some particulars of the charges made against Pepys will be found in the Commons' Journals of the day, though the trial never came on. BRAYBROOKE.

Audley End.

Passage in the "Two Gentlemen of Verona" (Vol. vi., p. 469.). The excellent correction, by SIR F. MADDEN, of "face" for "case," in Twelfth Night, Act V. Sc. 1., induces me to call the attention of the readers of "Ν. & Q." to another passage, which has been corrupted just in the same manner, namely, by the confusion of " f" and "f," combined with a transposition of letters. In the Two Gentlemen of Verona, Act II. Sc. 7., we read, according to the first folio and Mr. Knight: "A thousand oaths, an ocean of his tears, And instances of infinite of love,

Warrant me welcome to my Proteus."

MR. COLLIER follows the second folio, which reads "as infinite;" but, as Malone justly observes, "of" and "as" are not likely to have been confounded. It was this observation of Malone's that led me to what I believe to be the true reading, namely,

"And instances so infinite of love."

"So" is to be understood here in an intensitive sense; as we say, even now, "I am so glad," "I am so sorry," and as Shakspeare says in Cymbeline, Act I. Sc. 2.:

"As I my poor self did exchange for you,
To your so infinite loss."

I take this opportunity of correcting an error of the press, or of my own pen, in a communication of mine, which is to be also found in the above page of "N. & Q.," though on a quite different subject:

for Daridianus read Daridinianus.

L.

Royal Arms in Churches (Vol. v., p. 559.; Vol. vi., p. 108.). - In the south chancel aisle of Coggeshall Church will be found a hatchment bearing the royal arms with the Hanoverian escutcheon; the writer believes it was painted on the occasion of the public mourning for the Princess Charlotte. A nicely carved royal arms has been removed from one of the churches in the Isle of Sheppey to ornament a chemist's shop in Sheerness; it is not known from which of the churches.

ALFRED.

Roman or British Roads (Vol. vi., pp. 271. 328. 423.).-Without entering into the individual question discussed, I beg leave to record my strong doubt of E. G. R.'s statement, that the British roads were wider than the Roman. I have had some ac

quaintance with the principal Roman roads in England, and, incidentally, with some few traces of British roads. I am not unacquainted with Stukeley, Horseley, and Roy, and the result on my mind is, that the British roads were narrow lanes, and the Roman roads (except when some local accident intervened) not only straight but broad. Of this the most important artery of all, the great Watling Street, is an existing example.

C.

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Quexpark. The manor of Quex or Quekes is the south-east portion of the parish of Birchington, Isle of Thanet, co. Kent. (Vide Hasted, folio, iv. p. 332.) A Query upon the family of Crispe of Queekes and Clive Court, and of Royton Chapel, Lenham, all in co. Kent, touching a piece of royal secret history, viz. as to a Crispe being "a natural child of King William the Third," by William Winder of Montreal, will be found in p. 598. of the Gentleman's Magazine of June, 1847.

ALFRED.

Highlands and Lowlands (Vol. vi., p. 363.).Your correspondent Mr. C. FORBES asks, if there be any line, running from east to west, dividing Scotland into Highlands and Lowlands. I reply,

there is not. There are large tracts of land in Scotland that fall into a third category. I will explain. Take a map and draw a line from Forfar to Oban. Let this line intersect the intermediate points of Dunkeld, Crieff, Comrie, Loch Earn Head, Callander, Aberfoyle, Ben Lomond, Tarbet, and Inverary. All south of this line is called the Lowlands; but it by no means follows that all north of it is the Highlands. For example: the large tract of agricultural country lying north of the Grampians, and running into Angus, Aberdeenshire, Murray, Sutherland, and Caithness, is not called "Highlands." Generally speaking, wherever divine service is performed in Gaëlic part of the Sunday, and in English the English other, there are the Highlands. In the Lowlands, and in the low territories of the North, the service is always performed in English. I can give your correspondent, if he wishes it, a geographical account of the Gaëlic people and their language, but I think I have said enough in reply to his Query.

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Birmingham.

C. MANSFIELD INGLEBY.

Muffs worn by Gentlemen (Vol. v., p. 560.; Vol. vi., passim.). - Besides the various extracts from different publications which you have already noticed, the following may, perhaps, be worthy of being mentioned.

At the end of the comedy, The Mother-in-Law, or the Doctor the Disease (printed in 1734), in the dénouement, Sir Credulous is exhorted to become the physician to himself:

"'Tis but putting on the doctor's gown and cap, and you'll have more knowledge in an instant than you'll know what to do withall."

Then follows:

Primrose. "Besides, Sir, if you had no other qualification than this muff of yours, 'twould go a great way. A muff is more than half in half in the making of a doctor."

There is a representation of a physician wearing a muff in a caricature upon pon the endeavours Licentiates of the College of Physicians to become incorporated into the College as Fellows, entitled,

"The March of the Medical Militant to the Siege of Warwick Lane Castle, in the year 1767." I do not know who the persons represented are, but only one among several is represented with this appendage, so that I doubt its being a common dress, though possibly not unusual. S. W. J. M.

Brook Street.

I have often heard a relative, who died in 1808, speak of having seen Charles Fox walking with his hands in a muff, and with red-heeled shoes.

F. W. J.

Venom of Toads (Vol. vi., p. 338.). - As the attention of the readers of "N. & Q." has recently

been directed to the poisonous qualities of the toad, the following may not be without interest; I have extracted it from Thomas Lupton's A Thousand Notable Things of Sundarie Sorts, 1630, book i. art. 1.:

"In the first beginning hereof, a rare and strange matter shall appeare, worthy to be marked, especially of such as loue or use Sage. A certaine man being in a Garden with his Loue, did take (as he was walking) a few leaues of Sage, who rubbing his teeth and gummes therewith, immediately fell downe and died; whereupon his said Loue was examined how he died. She said she knew nothing that he ailed, but that he rubbed his teeth with sage; and she went with the Judge and others into the Garden and place, where the same thing happened: and then she tooke of the same Sage to show them how hee did, and likewise rubbed her teeth and gummes therewith, and presently she died also, to the great maruell of all them that stood by; whereupon the Judge suspecting the cause of their deaths to be in the Sage, caused the said bed of Sage to bee plucked and digged up, and to bee burned, lest others might have the like harme thereby. And at the rootes, or under the said Sage, there was a great Toad found, which infected the same Sage with his venomous breath. Anthonius Mizaldus hath written

of this marvellous matter. This may be a warning to such as rashly use to eat raw and vnwasht Sage; therefore it is good to plant Rue round about Sage, for Toads by no meanes will come nigh vnto Rue (as it is thought of some)."

Has the toad an antipathy to rue?

Bottesford Moors.

EDWARD PEACOCK, Jun.

Passage in "Religio Medici" (Vol. vi., p. 415.). - MR. ALLEN will find in chap. vi. of Mrs. Crowe's very interesting book, The Night Side of Nature, under the title of "The Palingenesia," a considerable amount of information on the resuscitation of the forms of plants from their ashes. The following sentence I will copy out for him:

"Kireher, Vallemont, Digby, and others, are said to have practised this art of resuscitating the forms of plants from their ashes; and at the meeting of naturalists at Stuttgart, in 1834, a Swiss savant seems to have revived the subject, and given the receipt for the experiment extracted from a work by Etinger, called Thoughts on the Birth and Generation of Things. The earthly husk,' say Etinger, remains in the retort, while the volatile essence ascends like a spirit, perfect in form, but void of substance." "

AN OXFORD B.C.L.

Monument at Wadstena (Vol. vi., p. 388.). - With reference to MR. GOLE'S inquiry respecting the monument in the monastery at "Modstena" in Sweden to the memory of Phillipa, daughter of Henry IV. of England, and wife of Eric P. King of Sweden, I beg to suggest whether the monastery at " Wadstena" be not the place in question. For, in that beautiful collection of prints in three

volumes folio, entitled Suecia Antiqua et Hodierna, published about 1703, Modstena is not mentioned or alluded to. But in the third volume there is a large print of the castle and town of Wadstena; immediately following which is a print of the monument of our Saviour on the cross, as described by MR. GOLE. The second print represents the slab, with the supporters of the arms of England - the lion and the unicorn. The royal arms, "France and England quarterly," with a helmet, crest, and lambrequin, are on the righthand corner at the bottom of the slab.

The inscription on the print is

"Tumulus Serenissimæ Reginæ Philippæ Regis Erici coniugis in Templo Wastenente."

It appears to me that this memorial is an incised slab. J. B.

Derivation of "Pic-nic" (Vol. iv., p. 152.). — Although I am unable to answer the query of A. F. S. as to the derivation of the word, yet I can refer him to the following extract, which I accidentally met with in seeking the information he wanted. It will be interesting as showing the year in which these pic-nic parties first came into fashion in England:

"Pic-nic Supper. This season (1802) says the Annual Register, has been marked by a new species of entertainment, common to the fashionable world, called a Pic-nic supper. It consists of a variety of dishes. The subscribers to the entertainment have a bill of fare presented to them, with a number against each dish. The lot which he draws obliges him to furnish the dish marked against it; which he either takes with him in a carriage, or sends by a servant. The proper variety is preserved by the taste of the maître-d'hotel who forms the bill of fare."

Query: How was the wine furnished at these W. W.

pic-nic suppers ?

La Valetta, Malta.

Dr. P. Browne's MSS., &c. (Vol. iv., p. 175.).When I forwarded a Query as to the MS. Flora of the counties of Mayo and Galway, which Dr. Browne had prepared for the press under the title of Fasciculus Plantarum Hibernicarum, I was under the impression that the MS. was possibly in the library of Trinity College, Dublin; but I have since heard that it, along with some other MS. remains of his, are in the library of the Linnean Society. Perhaps, by giving this clue, some information respecting these MSS. might be furnished me by some of your readers who may be Fellows of the Society. I am not aware if they have been published; but if they have, a note on this would also oblige.

The recent Queries and Notes of EIRIONNACH and SELEUCus induce me also to call their attention to the latter part of the Query which I have referred to above (Vol. iv., p. 175.), as probably

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Newspaper Extracts (Vol. vi., p. 77.). - The subjoined passage, from the Preface of a small octavo volume, entitled The Annual Scrap Book, containing Selections from the Works of the most Popular Modern Authors, pp. 336, John Chidley, 123. Aldersgate Street, 1839, leads me to suppose that it, and not Mornings in Bow Street, is the work respecting which your correspondent J. P. desires information :

"This volume is a compilation of paragraphs which have lately gone the round of the press. In making this collection, the principal object has been to produce a cheap and amusing book; containing a great variety of information suited to all tastes, and in every page of which something will be found worthy of preservation," WILLIAM BATES.

&c.

Birmingham.

Descent of the Queen from John of Gaunt (Vol. vi., p. 432.). - Why should MR. WARDEN think it "singular that the Queen's descent cannot be traced to John of Gaunt in the strictly legitimate line?" The Queen legitimately descends from Lionel Duke of Clarence, elder brother of John of Gaunt. She descends also from Edmund Duke of York, his younger brother - whose descendents intermarried. What singularity is there in her not descending from the intermediate brother, whose legitimate issue was extinct before what is called the House of York, but was in truth the House of Clarence, came to the throne? Her Majesty has, by Henry VII., some of John of Gaunt's legitimated blood in her veins; but what there is of singularity in her not descending legitimately from one whom she does descend from illegitimately, I cannot discover.

C.

Book of Almanacs (Vol. vi., p. 432.). - I am afraid that even the little asked for by MR. WARDEN, namely, tables to find at what lunations eclipses might have taken place, could not be given by few (if small) tables, or by formulæ which a commonly-qualified arithmetician could, as such, be taught to apply. The knowledge required is, that of the moon's latitude at the time of new or full moon, and of the horizontal parallaxes and apparent semidiameters of both bodies.

I was aware of the error pointed out by Mr. WARDEN, which obviously arose from using 10 instead of 12, in converting the astronomical

reckoning into common reckoning. There are two other errors in the Introduction. Page xiii., column 2, for "September 29" read "September 30;" page xviii., column 2, for "(December 17)" read " (December 16)." No error in the Almanacs or Index, &c. has yet been pointed out. I need not say that I shall be much obliged by the communication of any which may be discovered. A. DE MORGAN.

Elizabeth, Equestrian Statue of (Vol.iv., p. 231.). - For the information of MR. LAWRENCE I would beg to state that there is in Rhode Island a breed of horses famed for their pacing, which I think is their natural gait. If I remember rightly, it is termed the Narragansett breed, and the horses are very fast. Although the posture of a pacing horse may appear unnatural in a statue, as MR. LAWRENCE remarks, yet it has never struck me as such in the living animal; and as to the movement for the rider, it is peculiarly agreeable. W. W.

La Valetta, Malta.

Pictures of Queen Elizabeth's Tomb (Vol. vi., p. 9.). One of the pictures of Queen Elizabeth's tomb, alluded to in your Number of July 3, 1852, still remains on the wall of the south aisle in the church at Geddington in Northamptonshire.

At Geddington one of the beautiful Eleanor crosses stands in good preservation. CANONICUS.

Durham.

The Use of Tobacco by the Elizabethan Ladies (Vol. iv., p. 108.). - Stow, when writing of tobacco, calls it that "stinking weed which was commonly used by most men and many women." Would this not appear to justify Mr. Eccleston's statement in his Introduction to English Antiquities, and at the same time answer DR. RIMBAULT'S Query? How far Mr. Eccleston is correct in stating that the inordinate use of the Nicotian weed caused the ladies' teeth to become rotten, I am unable to say, having always understood that it had a contrary effect. In the words of Dr. RIMBAULT, "I should be glad to be enlightened upon the subject by some of your scientific W. W.

readers."

Malta.

Saints who destroyed Serpents (Vol. vi., pp. 147. 230.). - The earliest destroyer of a dragon that I have met with is Donatus, Bishop of Eurea in Epirus, in the end of the fourth century. (See Sozomen, vii. 28.) Add also to the list St. Clement, the first Bishop of Metz, for whom see Murray's Handbook of France. J. C. R.

Bean Swads (Vol. vi., p. 312.).-" Bean Swads" are certainly a cure for warts, as stated by NicTILLIS NICTOLLIS. I know this from experience, having, when a boy, had my left hand most unpleasantly disfigured by them. They all, however, disappeared in less than a fortnight, after being well rubbed with a bean swad, and the pod thrown away. C.-S. T. P.

W Rectory.

Misprint in Prayer Books (Vol. vi., p. 390.). In the editorial remarks on this subject, the rubric ordering Jeremiah xii. to be read as the lesson on the 30th of January is said to contain an evident misprint, because "the twelfth chapter has no reference whatever to the subject of the day." The error, however, seems to be in this remark, for the chapter is certainly not inapplicable to the occasion, as may be seen from the summary given of it by Wheatly:

"Jeremiah's complaint to God of great mischiefs done in church and state by false prophets and tyrannical rulers, with God's answer, giving the reason of His permitting it, and threatening withal, in due time, to punish the authors of these mischiefs, and to deliver the righteous."

This reason, therefore, for supposing a mistake to exist, cannot be allowed to have any weight.

With reference to the other remark, that in the edition of 1661 the lesson is Zach. xii. and not Jer. xii., I would remind the editor of "N. & Q." that (as Wheatly tells us) "in the reign of James II. a review was taken and several alterations made in this office," an instance of which is the substitution of the present hymn for the Venite. So that the first edition cannot be taken as a standard now. F. A.

[We have since referred to Mr. Keeling's Liturgiæ Britannicæ, and find that the Sealed Book of 1662 has Jer. xli., as we conjectured it should be. This settles

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Tomb of John Baret (Vol. vi., p. 345.).- There are several inaccuracies in the inscriptions on this tomb as communicated by A. B. R. They are correctly printed in the notes to the volume of Bury Wills, issued by the Camden Society, where is also a description of the tomb and what remains of the embellished roof of the chantry chapel in which it was placed. BURIENSIS.

"Hell is paved with good Intentions" (Vol. ii., Pp. 86. 141.). - May I be permitted a word with your correspondents J. M. G. and C.? This is an old Spanish proverb, and I have the book now open before me in which it was published, nearly two hundred years ago. It is thus recorded':

"El infierno es bleno de buenas intenciones."

And thus explained:

"Quiere dezir, que no ay pecador por malo que sea, que no tenga intencion de meiorar la vida, mas la muerte le sobreprende."

This proverb signifies that there is no sinner, how bad soever, but hath an intention to better his life, although death doth surprise him. W. W.

Malta.

Emaciated Monumental Effigies (Vol. vi., p. 343.).

the point; for, as Mr. Keeling remarks in his preface - Although scarcely worth the doing, yet I cannot

(p. viii.), "the forms of 1662 were approved by by Convocation; while it does not appear that the alterations made in the reign of 'James II., in the services of May 29 and Jan. 30, rest upon the like authority."]

In all, or nearly all, the ordinary copies, the Epistle for the First Sunday after Easter ends thus: "He that hath not the Son, hath not life," the words "of God" being erroneously omitted after "Son." In the editions published by the Dublin Association for Promoting Christian Knowledge, the error is corrected. ALTRON.

[The words "of God" appear in the Common Prayer Book of 1604; but are omitted in the Sealed Book of 1662.]

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help correcting a slight inaccuracy of A. B. R., in his statement respecting the emaciated marble figure in Exeter Cathedral, which, perhaps, some one of your Exeter contributors may have done ere this. The figure there referred to will be found to be without the dagger, stated to be sticking in its breast.

The account, in other respects, is correctly in accordance with that given by the officials in the cathedral.

H. H.

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