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Read Ebook: Notes and Queries Vol. IV Number 101 October 4 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men Artists Antiquaries Genealogists etc. by Various Bell George Editor
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NOTES:--
The Battle of Brunanburgh, by Dr. Thurnam 249
The Caxton Coffer, by Bolton Corney 250
Accuracy Of Printing 250
Folk Lore:--Discovering the Bodies of the Drowned--Tom Chipperfeild--East Norfolk Folk Lore 251
Sermon of Bishop Jeremy Taylor, by James Crossley 251
Cowley and Gray, No. 11. 252
Minor Notes:--Remains of Sir Hugh Montgomery--Westminster Hall--Meaning of "Log-ship"--Locusts of the New Testament 254
QUERIES:--
Coinage of Vabalathus, Prince of Palmyra, by the Rev. E. S. Taylor 255
Minor Queries:--Chaucer, how pronounced--The Island of AEgina--Statute of Limitations Abroad--Tapestry Story of Justinian--Praed's Works--Folietani--Berlin Mean Time--Defoe's House at Stoke Newington--Oxford Fellowships--Leonard Fell and Judge Fell--"Cleanliness is next to Godliness"--Davies Queries 255
MINOR QUERIES ANSWERED:--Poet referred to by Bacon--The Violin--Sir Thomas Malory, Knt.--Archbishop of Spalatro--Play of "The Spaniards in Peru"--Selion 257
REPLIES:--
Prophecies of Nostradamus 258
Borough-English 259
Passage in Virgil 260
Replies to Minor Queries:--Ell-rake--Freedom from Serpents--Nao, for Naw, for Ship--De Grammont--The Termination "-ship"--The Five Fingers--Marriages within ruined Churches--Death of Cervantes--Story referred to by Jeremy Taylor--Gray's Obligations to Jeremy Taylor--Blessing by the Hand--Sacre Cheveux--Pope and Flatman--Linteamina and Surplices 260
MISCELLANEOUS:--
Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, &c. 263
Books and Odd Volumes wanted 263
Notices to Correspondents 263
Advertisements 264
Notes.
BATTLE OF BRUNANBURGH.
It is remarkable that the site of this great battle, the effects of which were so important to the Anglo-Saxon power, remains to this day undetermined.
"Athelstan, king, of earls the Lord, of heroes the bracelet-giver, And his brother eke, Edmund etheling, life-long-glory in battle won with edges of swords near Brumby."
This conclusion is to some extent confirmed, when we connect with the above the tradition or historical fact, whichever we regard it, that it was after this battle that Athelstan, in redemption of a previous vow, made various costly offerings on the altar of St. John of Beverley, and endowed that church with great privileges, the memory of which exists to the present day. It must however be admitted, that such a presumption is anything but conclusive in regard to a topographical question of this description. In conclusion, I would suggest that the Domesday Book for Yorkshire and Lincolnshire should be carefully examined, in order to ascertain whether the place in question, under any of the names assigned to it, is there to be found.
JOHN THURNAM, M.D.
Devizes.
THE CAXTON COFFER.
In the mean time, I recommend an assemblage of notes on the life and works of Caxton, designed to correct current errors; to expose baseless conjectures; to indicate probable sources of information, or to furnish such novel information as research may produce; and to assist in establishing the principles on which such a memorial as that suggested should be prepared and edited.
In justification of this advice, I must express my belief that there have been few men of celebrity on whose life and labours so many erroneous statements, and inadmissible conjectures, have been published in works of general repute.
"I have a great number of books printed by Caxton, and in very good condition, except a very few. I think the number is forty-two. Have you any notes relating to that good honest man? I think he deserves those titles, and if I may add industrious too."--Edward, earl of Oxford, to Thomas Hearne, 1731.
"In Osborne's shop-catalogue for 1749, No. 5954, occurs the 'Catalogue of the late E. of Oxford's library, as it was purchased, inlaid with royal paper, in 16 vols. 4to. with the prices prefixed to each book--pr. 10. 10. 0.--N.B. There never was any other copy of this catalogue with the prices added to it.'--The same article, at the same price, is repeated in his cat. for 1750, No. 6583, and for 1751, No. 6347--after which, being discontinued in his subsequent cats. it was probably sold. Qu'y. to whom and where is it now?"--Richard Heber, c. 1811.
BOLTON CORNEY.
ACCURACY OF PRINTING.
"Nec intersit nisi dignus vindice nodus Inciderit."
FOLK LORE.
"The Indians imagine that in the case of a drowned body, its place may be discovered by floating a chip of cedar wood, which will stop and turn round over the exact spot: an instance occurred within my own knowledge, in the case of Mr. Lavery of Kingston Mill, whose boat overset, and the person was drowned near Cedar Island; nor could the body be discovered until this experiment was resorted to."
S.W.
Liverpool, Sept. 1851.
E.N.W.
Southwark.
W.H.P.
SERMON OF BISHOP JEREMY TAYLOR.
I have a 12mo. volume entitled--
Pp. 92., Exclusive of Preface.
JAMES CROSSLEY.
Gray, when alluding to Shakspeare, in his Pindaric ode on "The Progress of Poesy," had probably Cowley in memory:
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