11 S. I. FEB. 5, 1910.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 43. Edward, s. of Lieut. Wm. Anderson, R.B.A. Corps, ob. 4 Feb., 1809, a. 5. 44. Mr. James Wilson, Master Shipwright H.M. Naval Yard, ob. 16 May, 1809, a. 54. 45. George Green Adam, sen., late Clerk of the Chequer, H.M. Board of Ordnance, ob. 16 Apr., 1808, a. 47 years, 35 of which he served the Hon. Board. 46. William Patrick, S. a. 18 months 5 days. of Dep.-Asst.-Com 47. A recumbent stone illegible from dirt. 48. Ditto. (as in "church"), viz., Bohemian chabraka, 66 Sattel-zeug. This seems to be what we want. missary-General Rosseter, ob. 21 Sep., 1811, 1898, yāprāq is given as the Turkish for There can be no doubt about yāprāq being a genuine Osmanli term. Its original meanleaf, flake," but it has many ing was The only difficulty is the secondary senses. change of initial y to ch, to which I can at the moment find no parallel; but there are several cases known in which y changes into (janizary, for instance). Once the initial had become ch, the simplification to sh was JAS. PLATT, Jun. easy and natural. 49. Rudolph Schultz, s. of R. E. and Harriot Honoured where known, endearing where allied, G. S. PARRY, Lieut.-Col. 18, Hyde Gardens, Eastbourne. (To be concluded.) "THE HOLY ZIARET."-In The Times of 18 January we are told that the Khedive, robed in white, and bearing a lighted taper, performed the Holy Ziaret, the visitation of the Prophet's tomb at Medina, on Tuesday, evening, 11 January. Zaurat is the proper form, given in the dictionaries, of the technical term in Arabic for the visit of the pilgrim to Muhammad's grave at Medina. The pilgrim to Medina is called záir, as distinguished from a hajî, or pilgrim to Mecca. The two words zaurat and záir are derived from an Arabic root zár, to incline toward, repair to, visit, which is cognate with the well-known Hebrew root zûr, to zarim, be a stranger, visitor, whence strangers" (i.e. foreigners), in Psalm liv. 3. A. L. MAYHEW. 46 21, Norham Road, Oxford. "SHABRACK : ITS ETYMOLOGY.-This word belongs to a small group of names connected with cavalry equipment-calpack, others which dolman, sabre, shako, are spread from Hungarian into the tongues of Western Europe, but are not all native Hungarian words. Shabrack appears to be Turkish. In Redhouse's Turkish Lexicon,' Shabraq, a horsep. 1106, it is given as cloth." At first sight it looks as if we might sleep soundly in our beds, to borrow a phrase from current politics, and leave this to account for French chabraque, Unfortunately, German Schabracke, &c. beside these forms commencing with sh, there is another set commencing with ch 66 A OF MILAN': HOLBEIN'S 'DUCHESS "SPENCER."-In The Connoisseur for last July is an elaborate description of Holbein's portrait of the Duchess of Milan by Mr. In the account of Maurice W. Brockwell. the dress worn by the Duchess occurs the following passage:— 'Christina wears a black satin gown, and over that a long black spencer lined with yellow sable; the upper part of her forehead is concealed by a black hood. She wears a small white frill round her neck, and white frills edged with black round her wrists." 66 I wish to draw attention to the fact that In The Century the overdress in this picture is not a spencer, but just the reverse. Dictionary' is this description of a spencer : Named after Earl Spencer, 1782-1845. A man's 2. A woman's garment outer garment or overcoat so short that the skirts introduced about 1800. of the body-coat worn under it were seen; a fashion introduced a year or two later, and made in direct It also was short, and imitation of the above. formed a kind of over- jacket, reaching a little below the waist." Any one not knowing the picture well might think that some alteration had been made in it, and that the long and almost flowing robe had been substituted for a I have known the picture for at least thirty years, and can confidently say E. W. ANDREWS. that no such alteration has taken place. spencer. West Hampstead. BURNS'S DEATH AND DR. HORNBOOK': A NEW READING.-From a Scottish newshas recently undertaken to paper one learns that "a transatlantic anthologist " expound Burns. The example given of this adventurer's method of procedure is so fresh and entertaining that it seems to merit chronicling in N. & Q.' It may be re- JOHN MURRAY AND MEDICAL BOOKS.membered that in Death and Dr. Horn-I do not find in the index of Smiles's book' a midnight reveller, tortuously wending his homeward way, suddenly meets at a lonely corner a strange figure, who announces in appalling tones that his name is Death. This prompts a valiant retort in these terms: Quoth I, "Guid faith, Ye 're maybe come to stap my breath; I rede ye weel, tak' care o' skaith, The meaning of this is, "It may be that you are come to stop my breath; but observe me, lad, I counsel you to beware of harm; see, there's a clasp-knife." The roistering inebriate, brimful of Dutch courage, indicates his readiness to act in self-defence, and to use for his purpose the one lethal weapon immediately at command. His grim interlocutor meets his threat with contemptuous indifference, bidding him put up his "whittle," or knife, as its appearance has absolutely no weight with him : "Guidman," quo' he, "put up your whittle, I'm no design'd to try its mettle; I wadna mind it, no, that spittle Out-owre my beard." It would appear that the " transatlantic anthologist," unravelling this passage, intimates that the gully to which the spectral intruder is referred is not a knife at all, but a feature of the landscape. In his own words, as reported by his disciple, it represents "an adjacent ravine down which the Poet intended to hurl the Enemy of Mankind." As an example in the art of extravagant commentary this, certainly, would be hard to surpass. It would be interesting to hear from its author or his Scottish representative what he makes of the " whittle, and how 66 22 he supposes a ravine" could be disposed of by raiment. the Poet within the recesses of his THOMAS BAYNE. OLDEST POSTMASTER IN ENGLAND.-The death of Mr. William Kenward, of Wivelsfield, near Hayward's Heath, removes the oldest postmaster in the country. He was in his eighty-ninth year, and was postmaster for sixty-three years. In his early years he used to collect and deliver letters in a cart drawn by dogs. The villagers having letters to post were in the habit of placing them in their windows, and Mr. Kenward notified his arrival by sounding a horn. His wife, who is the recognized assistant at the post office, is in her ninety-first year. FREDERICK T. HIBGAME, A were Publisher and his Friends ' any reference to the fact that the first John Murray published a good many medical books. The fifth edition (and probably earlier ones) of Robert Hooper's Anatomist's Vade-Mecum,' 1804, bore the imprint of John Murray, 32, Fleet Street. Bell & Bradfute of Edinburgh, and Gilbert & Hodges of Dublin, associated with him on the title-page, but probably only as his agents. This little book contains a list of eight other books more or less relating to medical science, printed for John Murray." There is also the following curious notice :"Gentlemen residing in the country or abroad, surgeons in the navy and army, &c., may be immediately supplied with any work relating to medical science, upon addressing a line to J. Murray, No. 32, Fleet Street, London, where students, &c., may receive every information respecting the various lectures which are delivered at different seasons in the metropolis." W. ROBERTS. -- FLYING MAN: EARLY INSTANCE AT FLORENCE. One of the highly artistic bas-reliefs on the exterior of the exquisite Campanile by Giotto, near the Duomo at Florence, illustrates this subject. In the sunk hexagonal panel is the figure of a man camel's, with the straps across it to hold the flying, to the right. His head is like a bit. His body is naked, but covered with scales. Attached to his back are two large eagle wings, reaching as far as his ankles. At the top of the inside of each wing is a sort of handle, which he grasps, and so is able to flap them. Below his feet is a small object which looks like a parachute. It is idea of a flying man. curious as giving the thirteenth-century photograph, in a recent United States newsI saw a copy of it, apparently from a D. J. paper. As regards the Statutes, the sole right to print was granted on 22 April, 1547, by Edward VI. to Richard Grafton; on 29 Dec., 1554, by Queen Mary, to John Cawood (for the Statutes in English); on 27 Sept., 1577, by Queen Elizabeth, to Christopher Barker for life; and on 19 July, 1603, by James I. to Robert Barker for life. As regards common law books, Edward VI. granted a special licence on 12 April, 1553, to Richard Tottel, citizen, stationer, and printer of London, for seven years, and this was renewed by Mary for another seven years on 1 May, 1556, and by Elizabeth, for life, on 12 Jan., 1558/9. The monopoly of printing the common law books passed, on 18 Nov., 1577, to Nicasius Tetsweirt, for thirty years, renewed on 20 March, 1593/4, for a similar period, to Charles Tetsweirt; whilst on 10 March, 1598/9, Thomas Wright and Bonham Norton obtained a licence to print all law books for a period of thirty years. R. S. B. MUNICIPAL SWORDS. (See 10 S. v. 90, 151.)—At the latter reference we are told of a sword being presented to the city of Exeter by Edward IV., and another by Richard II. to the city of Chester. I subjoin a paragraph from The Daily Mirror of Saturday, 27 Nov., 1909, showing that the Corporation of King's Lynn possess one presented by King John : "King John's Sword.-Using the sword which is said to have been presented by King John to the Corporation of King's Lynn, King Edward yesterday, at Castle Rising, invested Sir William Ffolkes and Sir Somerville Gurney, both of whom played a prominent part in the recent Art Loan Exhibition at King's Lynn, with the insignia of Knight Commander of the Victorian Order conferred upon them on his Majesty's birthday." R. J. FYNMORE. "INCIDIS IN SCYLLAM," &C. (See 1 S. ii. 85, 136, 141; x. 274; 5 S. vi. 468; vii. 77, 478; viii. 14.)-This familiar line comes from the Alexandreid' of Philip Gualtier. In the Rouen ed. of 1487 the first word is Corruis, not Incidis: a variation noted by Mr. King in his Dict. of Classical Quot.,' 1904. The printer's signature is i.iii, and the line is Corruis in syllam cupiens vitare caribdim. But in the Ingolstadt ed. of 1541, p. lv (Greville Library, Brit. Mus.), it is Queries. formation on family matters of only private interest WE must request correspondents desiring into affix their names and addresses to their queries, in order that answers may be sent to them direct. CHAUCER AND BOCCACCIO.-I am anxious to know whether Landor, who in his ‘ImaBoccaccio meet and speak together, had ginary Conversations' makes Chaucer and his time it was a matter of general belief any authority for so doing, or whether at that the two actually met. GIULIA CELENZA. Via Faenza, 87 H, Casa Forti, Firenze. J. H. SWALE, MATHEMATICIAN.-Part I. of Geometrical Amusements; or, A Course of Lessons in Construction and Analysis, in Three Parts,' by J. H. Swale, was published in London in 1821. Were Parts II. and III. ever published? What is known concerning Swale apart from the facts that he was a frequent contributor to mathematical periodicals and himself published (1823-4) two numbers of The Liverpool Apollonius; or, The Geometrical and Philosophical Repository? R. C. ARCHIBALD. Rue Soufflot, 3, Paris. SOLLY COLLECTION OF PICTURES. -Can any of your readers furnish information as to the English merchant Solly" whose collection of pictures, purchased by Frederick William III. at Berlin in 1821, formed, with the Giustiniani Gallery, the nucleus of the Royal Picture Gallery in Berlin? He must have been a wealthy as well as an enterprising and judicious collector, since his pictures numbered 3,000, of which 677 were assigned for exhibition in the Royal Gallery; and the collection was especially rich in primitives and early pictures of German and Italian schools. I can find no notice or mention of Solly in any dictionary of art or biography. Is he perhaps connected with the distinguished surgeon Samuel Solly (1805-1871), himself a considerable artist, whose father, Isaac See 'Dict. Solly, was a Baltic merchant ? Nat. Biog.' under Saml. Solly. Any information about the collector would be interesting. W. H. CLAY. Reform Club. Incidis in Scyllam cupiens uitare Charybdin. MOST EXPENSIVE ELECTION.-MR. PICKIt is related that Dr. Maltby, Bishop of FORD's last note (ante, p. 47) reminds me Lincoln, pointed out the authorship to that Compton Wynyates was in danger of Charles Sumner (Yale Lit. Mag., 1860, xxv. being pulled down after 1768, as the result 350). RICHARD H. THORNTON. of the extravagance of the Lord North 66 ampton of the day in FIRST NONCONFORMIST MINISTER ELECTED FREDERICK T. HIBGAME. 'HEM OF A NOISE."-In an article in The Times of 12 January, entitled 'The Forthcoming Election: following story is told :a Forecast,' the "There is, of course, a class of voter who takes his politics very lightly, a class represented by the Sussex cynic, who gave his views thus : "Politics are about like this: I've got a sow in my yard with twelve little 'uns, and they little 'uns can't all feed at once, because there isn't room enough. So I shut six on 'em out of the yard while t' other six be sucking, and the six as be shut out they just do make a hem of a noise till they be let in, and then they be just as quiet as the rest.' In E.D.D.' (s.v. hem) it may be seen that these words of the Sussex cynic are to be found in Egerton's 'Folks and Ways (1884), p. 3, and that the expression of a noise,' a hem a hem of a hurry," &c., belongs to the dialect of Kent, Surrey, and Sussex. How may “hem " be explained? A. L. MAYHEW. Oxford. 99 66 FAMILY.-Some few years back there was oak overmantel on which were engraved the Royal College of Physicians. ROCHECHOUART.-Can any correspondent versed in French pedigrees kindly state if Emeric, or Guy, de Rupe Cavardi (wrongly the family of the above name descend from spelt Canardi in the index to Collinson's Somerset')-or de Rochechiward-whose of Vivon took place between 1250 and 1300 ? intermarriages with two ladies of the house Emeric's parentage and his relationship to Guy are also desired. H. DUCETOY CASTLEDEN FAMILY.-In the 'Life of the Rev. W. J. E. Bennett' I find the if the name Ducetoy (which I have seen somename of Dusautoy. Can any one tell me where) is a corruption of Dusautoy? family (of Kent) married into a family called Can any one tell me if any of the Deedes Castleden ? Further, can any one supply me with a name which sounded like "Gift," and which I once heard mentioned in connexion with the Castledens ? GENEALOGIST. PORTRAITS BY FLICK.-Can any correspondent inform me of the present whereabouts of the following portraits signed by G. Flick or Fliccus? This Thomas, 1st Lord Darcy of Chiche. picture is mentioned in Lord Lumley's 1. Full-length portrait, dated 1551, of inventory of 1590; also in Neale's Seats of Noblemen and Gentlemen,' at which time (1819) it was at Irnham Hall, Lincolnshire. It is known to have been still at Irnham in 1848, but after the sale of that property in 1854, by Mr. Charles Clifford, all trace of the picture is lost. 66 G. Fliccus, the painter, and his friend MARY F. S. HERVEY. 22, Morpeth Mansions, S.W. Ithaca, N.Y. CHARLES SOUTHDOWN. "GANION COHERIGA," GAELIC MOTTO.-In Scott's Waverley,' chap. xliv. (p. 334 of the Clarendon Press edition), there is an allusion to "the proud gathering word of Clanronald, This Ganion Coheriga (Gainsay who dares)." is no doubt meant for Gaelic, but must be It is not cormore than usually corrupt. Can any Scotsman rected in the Notes. I fancy I tell me the Gaelic orthography? have seen the motto of MacDonald of Clan'Dh'aindheoin ronald given elsewhere as ce theireadh e," but cannot find it in any of my works of reference, and it is so long since I took lessons in Gaelic that I dare not feel sure of the grammatical_correctness of my JAS. PLATT, JUN. version. 66 22 "UNREJOICING IN WORDSWORTH.—I have never been able to satisfy myself as to the exact meaning of the adjective rejoicing 22 in Wordsworth's splendid poem Yew Trees' : -boughs, as if for festal purpose decked un Was he thinking of the poison that lurks in their seeds, or of their comparative insignificance, or of the sad associations of the tree I. M. L. on which they grow? DE QUINCEY AND SWEDENBORG.-Writing in The New-Church Review (Boston, U.S.A.) for January of this year an article entitled Swedenborg in English Literature: III. Thomas De Quincey,' Miss Emily Robbins Sugden cites therein from De Quincey's The Female Infidel,' 1853, as follows: "To say that of Mr. Clowes was until lately but another way of describing him as a delirious dreamer. At present 1 presume the reader to be aware that Cambridge has, within the last few years, unsettled and even revolutionized our estimate of Swedenborg as a philosopher." De Quincey's presumption being without foundation in my case, I shall be glad if some one will kindly explain to me the meaning of the latter sentence quoted. CHARLES HIGHAM. 169, Grove Lane, Camberwell. = On 9 March, ARMSTRONG FAWCETT. 1839, Henry Leslie Armstrong, a comedian, married at Preston Registry Office Maria Louisa Fawcett, an actress, daughter of William Fawcett, a tobacco and snuff manufacturer. Further information desired about them and their children, if any. Walton-on-Thames. CHAS. A. BERNAU. some OF MAN.-I COSNAHAN FAMILY, ISLE should be obliged if some of your correspondents could supply a pedigree of this I believe, of family (which was, account in the Isle of Man, and produced one Deemster, if not more), or refer me to any published work in which a pedigree may be found. SIGMA TAU. ABBOTT FAMILY.-Inquiries on this subject have often appeared in N. & Q.' in the past (see 4 Feb., 11 March, 13 May, 28 Oct., 1854; 22 Nov., 1856; 7 May, 1870; 7 July, 1888; 27 Oct., 1906), and they have elicited valuable information. I should be glad if readers would volunteer to throw further light on the subject by communicating to me any details in their possession regarding the genealogy of any of the Abbotts beari versions of the same coat of arms (Gu |