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{637} NOTES AND QUERIES:

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No. 218.]
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 31. 1853.
[Price Fourpence. Stamped Edition 5d.

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CONTENTS.

  NOTES:--                                                    Page
  St. Stephen's Day and Riley's Hoveden, by J. S. Warden       637

  The Holy Trinity Church, Hull, by R. W. Elliot               638

  MINOR NOTES:--Italian-English--American Names--
  Rulers of the World in 1853--Revocation of the Edict of
  Nantes                                                       638

  QUERIES:--

  Derivation of Silo, by Augustus Strong                       639

  MINOR QUERIES:--Handwriting--Rev. Joshua Brooks--"New
  Universal Magazine"--Francis Browne--Advent Hymn--Milton's
  Correspondence--"Begging the Question"--Passage of Cicero    639

  MINOR QUERIES WITH ANSWERS:--Goldsmith's "Haunch of Venison" 640

  REPLIES:--

  School Libraries, by Weld Taylor, P. H. Fisher, &c.          640

  Trench on Proverbs, by T. J. Buckton, &c.                    641

  Major Andre                                                  643

  Passage in Whiston                                           645

  Helmets                                                      645

  Hampden's Death                                              646

  Peter Allan, by Shirley Hibberd                              647

  "Could we with ink," &c., by the Rev. Moses Margoliouth, &c. 648

  What Day is it at our Antipodes?                             648

  PHOTOGRAPHIC CORRESPONDENCE:--Aceto-Nitrate of
  Silver--On the Restoration of old Collodion                  649

  REPLIES TO MINOR QUERIES:--Admissions to Inns of Court--
  Inedited Lyric by Felicia Hemans--Derivation of Britain--
  Derivation of the Word Celt--"Kaminagadeyathooroosoomokanoogonagira"--
  Cash--"Antiquitas Saeculi Junentus Mundi"--Caves at Settle,
  Yorkshire--Character of the Song of the Nightingale--
  Inscriptions in Books--Door-head Inscription--Fogie--Sir W.
  Hewet--Ladies' Arms borne in a Lozenge--The Crescent--
  Abigail--Handbook to the Library of the British Museum--The
  Arms of Richard, King of the Romans--Greek and Roman
  Fortifications--Osbernus filius Herfasti--Devonianisms--Gentile
  Names of the Jews--Longevity--Reversible Names--Etymology of
  Eve--Manifesto of the Emperor Nicholas--Binometrical
  Verse--Gale of Rent                                          650

  MISCELLANEOUS:--
  Notes on Books, &c                                           655

  Books and Odd Volumes wanted                                 656

  Notices to Correspondents                                    656

  Advertisements                                               657

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Notes.

ST. STEPHEN'S DAY AND RILEY'S HOVEDEN.

In Roger de Hoveden's account of the accident which proved fatal to
Leopold, Duke of Austria, the jailer of Richard I. (Bohn's edit., vol. ii.
p. 345.), St. Stephen's Day, on which it occurred, is twice stated to be
_before_ Christmas Day, instead of after it. Is this an error of the
author, or of translator?[1] or are they right, and was St. Stephen's
martyrdom in those times commemorated on a different day from what it now
is? I cannot find, on reference to the authorities within my reach, that
this last was the case. Mr. Riley does not notice the discrepancy at all.

In the translation of this Volume, a few errors have come under my
observation, to which I beg to call Mr. R.'s attention: 1. In his note on
Corumphira's prophecy, at p. 36., he seems to forget that the Mahometan
year differs from the Julian by eleven or twelve days, and that in
consequence A. D. 1186 does not correspond to A. H. 564; in fact, the old
astrologer is perfectly correct in his chronology, more so than in his
predictions, many of which were signally falsified in the course of the
next few years. 2. A mountain frequently mentioned by his author as
projecting into the sea at the boundary of Catalonia and Valencia, and
called "Muncian," he says in a note at p. 151. is "probably Montserrat,"
which is far from either the sea or the frontier; the maps of Spain all
show, near the town of Vinaros on the east coast, a hill on the sea-shore
called "Monte Sia," which still, as then, forms the boundary in that
direction between the two provinces. 3. In his note at p. 156. on "Mount
Gebel," the translator says, "he (the author) probably means Stromboli;"
surely the name of Mongibello, and the mention of Catania a few lines
farther down should have shown him that Etna only could be meant, although
part of the mistake is due to Hoveden himself, who talks of it as a
separate island from Sicily. Mr. Riley's other geographical notes are
generally {638} correct, though a little more pains might have greatly
increased their number, to the elucidation of his author's account of the
Crusaders' proceedings in the East. 4. At p. 249. a well-known passage from
Horace is ascribed to Juvenal.

J. S. WARDEN.

[Footnote 1: The text in the _Scriptores post Bedam_ reads:--"Eodam anno
die S. Stephani protomartyris _infra_ natale Domini."]

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THE HOLY TRINITY CHURCH, HULL.

There is an error in the heading of one of the architectural notes appended
to the _Proceedings of the Arch. Inst._ held at York in 1846. From the
description which is given (p. 38.), it is plain that the above church is
the one to which the note refers; not that of St. Mary's, which is the
title of the article.

The material of the whole church is not, also, "brick with stone
dressings," as the note informs us, only the chancel, south porch, and
south transept; all the rest is of stone, and in a very sad state of
repair. A few years ago, the south transept was restored; but the
ornamental part was worked in such bad stone, that the crockets of the
pinnacles have already begun to moulder away. It is a curious fact, that
Bishop Lyttleton, who visited Hull in 1756 for the express purpose of
"examining the walls of the town, and the materials of which the Holy
Trinity Church is constructed," should have stated in the _Archaeologia_
(vol. i. p. 146.) that there did not appear to be "_a single brick_ in or
about the whole fabric, except a few in the south porch, placed there of
late years."

There is a matter of great archaeological interest connected with the part
of the church which is built of brick; for, as there is reason to believe
that the chancel was raised in the year 1285, there is good foundation for
the supposition, that Hull was "the first town to restore in this country
the useful art of brickmaking" (Frost's _Hull_, p. 138.). The walls of the
town, which were erected by royal licence in 1322, and still standing with
their gates and towers in the time of Leland and Camden, are described by
them as being of brick. Leland also says (_Itin._, edit. Hearne, fol. 53.)
that the greater part of the "houses of the town at that tyme (Richard II.)
was made al of brike."

R. W. ELLIOT.

Clifton.

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Minor Notes.

_Italian-English_ (Vol. viii., p. 436.).--The following wholesale
assassination of the English language was perpetrated in the form of a
circular, and distributed among the British residents at Naples in 1832:

    "Joseph the Cook, he offer to one illuminated public and most
    particular for British knowing men in general one remarkable, pretty,
    famous, and splendid collection of old goods, all quite new, excavated
    from private personal diggings. He sells cooked clays, old marble
    stones, with basso-relievos, with stewing-pots, brass sacrificing pots,
    and antik lamps. Here is a stocking of calves heads and feets for
    single ladies and amateurs travelling. Also old coppers and
    candlesticks; with Nola jugs, Etruscan saucers, and much more
    intellectual minds articles; all entitling him to learned man's
    inspection to examine him, and supply it with illustrious protection,
    of which he hope full and valorous satisfaction.

    "N. B.--He make all the old thing brand new for gentlemans who has
    collections, and wishes to change him. He have also one manner quite
    original for make join two sides of different monies; producing one
    medallion, all indeed unique, and advantage him to sell by exportation
    for strange cabinets and museums of the exterior potentates."

V. T. STERNBERG.

_American Names._--In the Journal of Thomas Moore, lately published in Lord
John Russell's memoirs of the poet, is the following passage, under date of
October 18, 1818:

    "Some traveller in America mentions having met a man called Romulus
    Riggs; whether true or not, very like their mixture of the classical
    and the low."

The name was borne by a very respectable man, who, in the year 1801, was in
partnership with his brother Remus Riggs, as a broker in Georgetown, in the
district of Columbia. Romulus, who survived his brother, afterwards became
an eminent merchant in Philadelphia, where he died a few years ago.

UNEDA.

Philadelphia.

_Rulers of the World in 1853._--Perhaps the following table, which I have
recently met with in a foreign journal, may be thought of sufficient
interest to make a Note of. In these unsettled times, and in case of a
general war, how much might it be changed!

There are at present eighty-three empires, monarchies, republics,
principalities, duchies, and electorates.

There are six emperors, including his sable highness, Faustin I. of St.
Domingo; sixteen kings, numbering among them Jamaco, King of all the
Mosquitoes, and also those of Dahomey and the Sandwich Islands; five
queens, including Ranavalona of Madagascar, and Pomare of the Society
Islands; eighteen presidents, ten reigning princes, seven grand dukes, ten
dukes, one pope, two sultans, of Borneo and Turkey; two governors, of Entre
Rios and Corrientes; one viceroy, of Egypt; one shah, of Persia; one imaun,
of Muscat; one ameer, of Cabul; one bey, of Tunis; and lastly; one
director, of Nicaragua.

W. W.

Malta.

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_Revocation of the Edict of Nantes._--The immense loss sustained by France
in all her great interests, as affecting her civil and religious liberties,
her commerce, trade, arts, sciences, not to speak of the unutterable
anguish inflicted upon hundred of thousands of individuals (among whom were
the writer's maternal ancestors,--their name, Courage), by the revocation
of the Edict of Nantes, has lately called into action the pens of some
industrious and talented men of letters, among whom M. Weiss is one of the
most meritorious. His interesting work, I observe, is about to receive an
English dress. In the shape of a Note through your medium, in order that
the translator may avail himself of information which, possibly, may not
have reached him, it should be known that Mr. William Jones, one of the
highly respected and accomplished _employes_ of the British Museum, has
written a letter to the _Journal des Debats_ (inserted in its number of
Nov. 30, and signed with his name), containing farther information of a
painfully-absorbing nature, from documents in the Museum, respecting the
_dragonnades_, and the sufferings and persecutions of a French pastor.

JOHN MACRAY.

Oxford.

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Queries.

DERIVATION OF SILO.

Can you or any of your correspondents inform me what is the derivation of
the word _silo_?

For many years after the colony of New South Wales was founded