To cure some infant malady a little girl the stones. Before ascending the hill he rings a known to the writer was taken to the village handbell, and those peasants who wish gather there church and made to sleep in a bed within together for prayer. The early morning, the earth still bathed in dew, the sun just rising, the sacred building, whilst her father watched throwing its glories over sea and land, the solembeside her during the night. Another girl nity of the hour, the profound tranquillity, that afflicted with a serious complaint used to reigned around where nought met the eye that visit an old church in Morfu, escorted by a told of man, fitted so well with the scene of prayer and the legend I had just been listening to, that companion of the same age, and was solemnly led, hand in hand, round the exterior of the for a moment, which more pretentious ones, at a a melancholy charm invested these simple ruins. building, beginning along the north side and different hour, would have failed to convey." round by the west end. Finally a half piastre was carefully pushed beneath the south door of the rustic temple. Sleeping within churches is not uncommon in the Levant, not only for a medico-religious purpose, but also as a matter of convenience in lieu of other accommodation. The singular custom of festooning the outside of a village church with a few strands of cotton yarn is differently interpreted by natives. There is no doubt, however, that the chief intention of the custom is to ward off or cure sickness of an epidemic kind. According to one theory, it is intended to act as an enchanted or quarantine cordon against the invasion of the community by the forces of the Evil One. These few particulars of the manners and customs of our new fellow-subjects, which may serve to give some idea of what manner of men they are, are of course tinged with the peculiar religiosity of their nature. It will therefore not be inappropriate to conclude with an interesting quotation from Di Cesnola's Cyprus,' where the great explorer of the island in the 60's and 70's of the last century gives an account of a common enough experience in any part of the island: "Enjoying the solitude in which I believed myself, and while climbing a jutting rock in order to reach the largest portion of a standing wall, I was startled by the voice of a man reading aloud in a nasal, unbroken tone. I coughed, and the sound immediately ceased, but after a moment proceeded as before. Upon reaching the wall I found a Greek priest reading to some nine or ten stonecutters. Í made a sign to the priest (who on my appearance had stopped) to proceed, and, uncovering my head, waited a little way off until the prayer was over. Upon its termination the men dispersed, and I approached the priest to make some inquiries, and from the old man's lips gathered the following story:- Formerly a church stood where are now these few ruins-a very long time ago, more than 200 years ago!' The old priest eyed me askance as he said this, fearing my archæological knowledge might dispute such remote antiquity; but the building was even more ancient than he imagined....A mass of rubbish and stones, with here and there a piece of wall a few feet high, are all that remain to mark the spot; but a priest comes every Monday in the year at break of day to pray among Cyprus. GEO. JEFFERY, F.S.A. JOHN HARDY, WINCHESTER SCHOLAR, heads the roll for 1549, entering the College at the age of 12, from Farnham (Kirby, Winchester Scholars,' p. 128). Proceeding to New College in due course, he was removed from his Fellowship in 1562 by the see of Winchester for recusancy. After that we lose sight of him for twenty-one years. In 1583 two Catholic laymen were executed for their religion, John Body and John Slade,. the former being a Wykehamist twelve years younger than Hardy. For what is known of them see 'Lives of the English Martyrs,' Second Series, vol. i. (Longmans & Co., 1914), at pp. 1-21. A disputation which they held at Winchester with the Dean of Winchester, Laurence Humphrey, D.D., and the Warden of Winchester Col-lege, Thomas Bilson, D.D., after they had twice been condemned to death (at Andover in April, and at Winchester on 19 August), seems to have given rise to a good deal of discussion, and several months elapsed before their deaths, Slade suffering at Winchester on 30 Oct., and Body at Andover 2 Nov., 1583. A fortnight or three weeks before Michaelmas in that year one Eustace Mocne of Farnham, gentleman, was entertaining divers guests at dinner. When dinner was over or during dinner one of the guests, Peter Hampden, gentleman, alluded to the disputation lately held at Winchester; and after dinner another guest, the Vicar of Farnham, Peter German, fetched a copy of Eusebius, whose words as to the constitution of the Council of Nicæa had been a point in the dispu tation. Hardy then translated the passage word for word, and said that he thought that Body and Slade were correct in their interpretation of it. No immediate result followed, for the Vicar "shortly fell lame, and so lay for the Νο space of a whole quarter of the year." sooner, however, had he recovered the use of his legs than he made his way to Guildford. and laid an information against Hardy before the local justices, Sir William More, George More, and Laurence Stoughton. They examined Hardy, German, and Hampden on 9 Jan., 1583/4, and committed Hardy to ward, and the next day wrote to Sir Francis Walsingham to ask what they were to do with him (Catholic Record Society, vol. v. pp. 47-50). Nine years afterwards "John Hardie, of Farnham, gent.," is mentioned among the recusants in Surrey remaining at liberty (Cal. Cecil MSS.,' vol. iv. p. 272). Any further particulars about John Hardy would be welcome. Stephen Hardye, who entered Winchester College in 1553 from Farnham, aged 13, and was deprived of his New College Fellowship in 1563 for non-residence, was probably a brother. JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT. 6 "Two RAZES OF GINGER." — In King Henry IV.,' Part I., the second Carrier says: I have a gammon of bacon and two razes of ginger to be delivered as far as Charing Cross.' The glossary of the Handy-Volume edition gives Raze, race, of ginger, a root of ginger.' This does not seem satisfactory; a couple of ounces of ginger would be but a small parcel to send by carrier along with a gammon of bacon. I turn to Prof. Skeat's Dictionary,' and find the glossary justified; in the two instances of the word (Winter's Tale,' IV. iii, 50; spelt “raze 1 Henry IV.,' II. i. 27) it is said to mean a root." The 66 66 66 race, a N.E.D.' also refers raze to root, of ginger. The similarity of the two words has, I believe, misled these two authorities. The clue to the meaning of raze will be found in the N.E.D.' under " raziere," referred to raser, a dry measure containing about four bushels." I follow the clue in Littré, where I find rasiere " to have been a measure of a little more than a bushel, so called from being struck, mesure rase (cf. race-measure," E.D.D.'). But Mistral's 6 Tresor brings me nearer still, for the is a southern measure sometimes used for corn, but especially for walnuts and almonds: dous cènt ras d'amelo, two hundred razes (bushels) of almonds. 66 Place-Names.- Moorlands News, 16 Sept. Walsall Postal Arrangements in 1795. Now that the above additions are being made, perhaps it is advisable for the benefit of future writers to state that many manuscript notebooks, &c., by, and valuable letters written to, the late Mr. W. H. Duignan (by the late Prof. W. W. Skeat and other scholars), are now in the possession of his son, Carl Duignan. A. S. WHITFIELD. It seems probable then that the raze of ginger was a frail or rush basket, such as has been used from 1216 ( N. & Q.', 9 S. vii. 33) to the present day for dried fruits, and holding about a bushel, thirty-two to seventy five pounds (N.E.D.'). being imported in such a package, the term race-ginger" (E.D.D.') would have been used to distinguish root-ginger from the ground spice, much more probably than from the ginger having been scraped - The Family-Dictionary; or, Houshold Companion (2nd edition), by William Salmon, Professor of Physick. London, Printed for H. Rhodes, at the Star, the Corner of Bride-Lane in Fleetstreet; and sold by R. Clavel at the Peacock against St. Dunstan's Church in Fleet-street, 1896." 66 Up to now our knowledge of the origin of the saying had been summed up by that careful scholar the late W. F. H. King in his Classical and Foreign Quotations (third edition, 1904). On p. 159 he says:Legendary speech of Lieut.-Gen. Pierre division at Waterloo, when summoned to surrender Jacques, Baron de Cambronne, and General of with the remains of the Imperial Guard by Col. banquet given in his honour at Nantes (1835), Hugh Halkett, King's German Legion. At a Cambronne himself publicly disavowed the saying, which he further showed to be contradicted by facts. In the first place,' he would remark, we Others have pretended that Cambronne's actual did not die, and, in the second, we did surrender.' lettres), more forcible than polite, which V. Hugo reply consisted of a single word (les cinq had the courage to print in full in Les Misésolutions of the question, that of Fournier rables' (vol. iii. Bk. Î, ch. 15)....Of the various [L'Esprit dans l'histoire,' pp. 412-15] seems the most probable that the mot was invented the night of the battle by Rougemont, a noted faiseur in which it appeared the next day, being repeated de mots, then correspondent of the Indépendant, in the Journal Général de France on June 24." Fournier's explanation must now be considered incorrect, as it is hardly possible that an English A.D.C. could have seen 11 P.M. on the evening of the battle. It is a French newspaper correspondent before probable that it was a phrase, current in the French army, that Rougemont first crystallized in print. It is practically impossible to discover the originator of a phrase that Shall we ever flies from mouth to mouth. know if Talleyrand said: 'C'est plus qu'un crime, c'est une faute "; or if Pitt's last words were : My country! O, my Bring me one of Bellamy's country!" or: pork pies"? DE V. PAYEN-PAYNE. 49, Nevern Square. 66 66 FAULTS OF INDEX-MAKING. (See 7 S. x. 344.) I here call attention, not to curiosities mainly ludicrous, but to those blunders which constantly occur through sheer stupidity. A palmary example occurs in North's Lives,' 1742, viz., Assertions, some impudent ones of the Faction." How this could help any living to find what he wanted is beyond And a corresponde graceful Act," "Fa uncommon for Fe Index to The Times': the last of which, I 3o. A la 3o travée du collatéral sud on must acknowledge, beats even my pet voit trois léopards contournés l'un sur l'autre. instance of 1742. 4o. A la nervure du transept paraît un roi ou prince anglais (Edward II. ou III., vers 1320–30). An index-maker ought to put himself in the place of an index-consulter, and to look for those salient points which give character to an incident or a paragraph. The making of indexes does not require a high order of certainement appartient à l'Angleterre, je Après ces quatre écus, dont l'origine talent; but it calls for perception, and a voudrais demander aux lecteurs de N. & Q.' sense of order, and good common sense. So s'ils pourraient m'aider à définir trèsfar as one can judge, this useful work is too exactement les cinq clefs de voûte suivantes. frequently committed to the lower grade of Représenteraient-elles les écussons de quelque literary hacks, and is poorly paid for. One général ou de quelque gouverneur anglais en remedy would be for reviewers to comment Aquitaine, de 1152 à 1451 ?-époque de la on such pieces of incompetency as are here domination anglaise dans notre pays et de cited, and not to cease until the nuisance is la construction de la Cathédrale de Bayonne. abated. The fourteenth volume of Punch includes the first half of the memorable year 1848. It contains items relating to Richard Cobden, Bishop Hampden, Joseph Hume, Lamartine, Archbishop MacHale of Tuam, Smith O'Brien, and Sibthorp, not one of whose names is indexed. Under "T" we find 66 To the Unemployed"; under "W" "We beg to Apologize and "What can be done with Ireland? On p. 104 there is an interesting picture by Doyle, in a group, of Pius IX. in the early days of his pontificate. This, of course, is unindexed. dessus de la petite rosace du fond, trois têtes 1o. A la 7 travée du collatéral sud, aude cheval, posées en profil 2 et 1. 2o. A la 5 travée de la grande nef, d'azur à un ours d'or passant devant un arbre de sinople chargé de fruits d'or et accosté de deux croix patées et banderolles de même. 3o. Entre la 5o et la 6o travée de la grande nef, à l'arc doubleau: un léopard d'or passant sur arbre, pied de vigne (?), au naturel. 4o. A l'arc doubleau qui sépare la 3o et la 4 travée du collatéral sud, deux animaux l'un sur l'autre. There should be room in London for a place where indexing would be contracted for and done in a thorough manner. But a 5. A l'arc doubleau qui sépare les 2e et really careful author will in most cases do 3 travées du collatéral nord, deux animaux his own indexing. fantastiques. RICHARD H. THORNTON. 8, Mornington Crescent, N.W. Queries. WE must request correspondents desiring information on family matters of only private interest to affix their names and addresses to their queries in order that answers may be sent to them direct. ARMES ET ÉCUSSONS ANGLAIS À 2. La 6 travée de la grande nef porte : Écartelé de France et d'Angleterre. C'est un écu écartelé aux 1 et 4 d'azur à trois fleurs de lys d'or et aux 2 et 3 de gueules à trois léopards d'or. CHANOINE Daranatz, Secrétaire de Mgr. l'Évêque de Bayonne. SMITH OF BOWLDOWN: JENNER FAMILY. WELTJE.-I am compiling an article for (See 11 S. i. 488.)-I inquired at the above a local magazine about this person, the reference: Who was Smith of Bowldown? cook and financial adviser to the Regent. Jenner was of Marston, Wilts; is Bowldown Where can I get any facts about him? in Wilts or Gloucestershire? I find in Three Oxfordshire Parishes,' by Mrs. Stapleton, Oxford Historical Society, 1884, p. 358, a sketch pedigree of Smith of Gloucestershire : Thomas Smith-daughter of Thomas Standard, of Kidlington. WILLIAM BULL. Vencourt, King Street, Hammersmith. [See 10 S. xii. 167, 239, 293, 352, 412, 466.] HAGGATT AND BARNARD, ENGLISH CONSULS AT ALEPPO.-1. Can any genealogist tell me the relation, if any, between John Haggatt of Bristol (born 1627, Middle Temple 11 Dec., 1645), Chief Justice of Carmarthen, Cardigan, and Pembroke, and Bartholomew Haggatt, Consul in Aleppo 1614-15 Further particulars regarding the latter are sought. A John Haggatt, born 1565, matriculated at Magd. Coll., Oxford, 24 Nov., 1581. 2. Information is also required concerning Edward Barnard, appointed English Consul in Aleppo 25 Oct., 1638 (vide 11 S. xi. 254). H. C. B. PRICE: ROBINS: BULKELEY: KIRKMAN. -Catherine Price married 7 Nov., 1732, Valentine Robins, by whom she had issue a daughter Catherine Robins, married (Col.) Philip Bulkeley, by whom she had, with other married (Col.) Kirkman, by whom she had issue, a daughter Josepha Bulkeley, who issue a daughter Josepha Kirkman. I should be glad to know to what branch of the Bulkeley family they belonged. Essex Lodge, Ewell. LEONARD C. PRICE. |