3. charging his high functions, Dick carried in his coat of the name was partly brought about by the fact pocket a pewter gill measure, of peculiar old-world shape, that Pliny speaks also of a Chalcedonian jasper with a turned ebony wood handle in the form of a cross that projected straight from the middle of the side. This Nat. Hist.,' xxxvii. 37). But it is not likely that symbol of his office was secured by a leathern thong about the third stone in the foundation of the New Jeruhalf a yard in length, one end being round the handle, salem was the "chalcedonius" described by Pliny the other through a button-hole in his coat. As might (Nat. Hist.,' xxxvii. 18). The fourth stone was the be expected, he was occasionally summoned before the ouápaydos, translated "emerald" in our versions. Bench on the charge of being drunk and incapable; to The third is called yaλêηdúν in most of the MSS., this he alluded in his report:-I have even been dragged but there are other readings, externally indeed of before a subordinate court and fined five shillings and costs whilst fulfilling the duties of my office.' In a wide and no great authority, which make it very probable populous district the duties when conscientiously per- that the original reading was kapynov, the Greek formed were more than mortal stomach could bear un- word for Carthage, from which a species of the carharmed; in the words of the good ale-conner, deteriora-bunculus or carbuncle was called "carchedonius," tion of tissue' was certain to ensue. The last of the aletasters died, a mart to duty, on October 10, 1876." Eastbourne. WALTER KIRKLAND. "propter opulentiam Carthaginis magna" (Pliny, 'Hist. Nat.,' xxxvii. 25). The carbuncle was called avopag by the Greek writers (that name occurs in the Septuagint, Ex. xxviii. 18, where the stone A CURE FOR WHOOPING COUGH.-The follow-composes one of the twelve on the breastplate of ing appeared in the Edinburgh Evening News of the high priest), from its supposed resemblance to Saturday, May 14, 1887. Maryhill, the scene of a live coal, and the Latin name is derived in a the incident described, is a large and important similar manner from "carbo" (Pliny, in loc. cit., suburb of Glasgow; indeed, it is practically an "a similitudine ignium appellati"). integral portion of the "second city." Perhaps readers will say whether anything of a similar character has recently come under their notice :-“On Thursday a travelling candyman and rag-gatherer, with a cart drawn by an ass, drew up in front of a row of houses know as Pirrat's Row, a little off the highway at Maryhill, Glasgow. Two children living in this quarter are suffering from whooping cough, After a short conversation with the proprietor of the ass, the mothers of the two children took up a position one on each side of the animal. One woman then took one of the children and passed it below the ass's belly to the other woman, the child's face being towards the ground. The woman on the other side caught hold of the child, and, giving it a gentle somersault, handed it back to the other woman over the ass, the child's face being turned towards the sky. The process having been repeated three times, the child was taken away to the house, and then the second child was similarly treated. While this was going on two other children were brought to undergo the magical cure. In order that the operation may have its due effect the ass must not be forgotten, and at the close of the ceremony each mother must carry her child to the head of the animal, and allow it to eat something, such as bread or biscuits, out of the child's lap. This proceeding having been performed in turn by the four mothers, the prescribed course was concluded. When it began there were not many people present, but before it was finished quite a crowd of spectators had gathered. From inquiries made yesterday morning, and again last night, it seems the mothers are thoroughly satisfied that their children are the better of the enchantment." Helensburgh, N.B. THOMAS BAYNE. CHALCEDONY, CARBUNCLE.-It is well known that the precious stone called chalcedony in Rev. xxi. 19 is not the stone which now goes by that name, and is popularly called "white carnelian." The "chalcedonius" of Pliny was an inferior kind of smaragdus or emerald, found in the coppermines near Chalcedon. Mr. King thinks ('Precious Stones and Gems,' p. 158) that the transference Attention was called to the probability of kapyndav being the true reading in Rev. xxi. 19 by a "London Physician" in a very interesting little work published by him a few years ago under the title 'The Precious Stones of the Bible.' It is evident that this was also the opinion of Mr. King, who seems to have fallen into the error of supposing that the translators of the Authorized Version took the same view. "Epiphanius," he says (Precious Stones and Gems,' p. 157), "and the Vulgate render xaλkηdav, the third stone in the foundations of the New Jerusalem, by smaragdus, but the Authorized Version translates it" buncle."" The Authorized Version, the Douay, and the Revised Version all call it "chalcedony," and the Vulgate has "chalcedonius," the fourth stone being the "smaragdus," from the Greek pápaydos, correctly translated in the English 66 versions emerald." car W. T. LYNN. BIBLIOGRAPHY OF SCHOOL AND COLLEGE MAGAZINES.-Such a bibliography is still a desideratum. The following is the result of some gleanings in this field, which the readers of N. & Q.' may be able to increase. Monthly Magazine. 2 vols. 8vo., Oxford, 1750The Student; or, the Oxford and Cambridge 1751. This is the first college magazine I have come across. Lowndes gives "Tho. Warton, Smart, Bonnel Thorton, Geo. Colman, and Dr. Sam. Johnson" as the contributors. An annotated copy exists in the Dyce Collection. The Microcosm: a Periodical Work by Gregory Griffin, of the College of Eton. Windsor, 1786.This magazine, to which the four principal writers were John Smith, Robert Smith, George Canning, and John Hookham Frere, ran through at least four editions, the fourth appearing in 1809. The Trifler.-A Westminster School magazine of Eastwood, near Glasgow, the following items about 1788. occur of disbursements for tobacco during two The Flagellant. 1792.-This was a Westminster months. The prices are in Scots currency, the School magazine conducted by Southey, and for pound Scots being equal to twenty pence steran article in it on "Flogging" he was expelled. | ling:It consisted of five numbers. The College Magazine. Hora Oliosa.-These two magazines (in MS.) were Eton productions about 1819, the writers being Lord Carlisle, H. N. Coleridge, W. Sidney Walker, Moultrie, C. H. Townshend, and Trower. Apis Matina. 1820.-This, another Eton magazine, was mainly the work of W. M. Praed, and consisted of six monthly numbers. Among the other contributors were Trower (afterwards Bishop of Gibraltar) and F. Curzon, The Etonian. London, 1820-21. 2 vols.-It appeared in October, and was carried on with great spirit by Praed, H. N. Coleridge, Moultrie. It ran through four editions, and Charles Knight was the publisher. The Brazen Head. Cambridge, 1826.-It ran for three numbers notwithstanding Praed's brilliant papers in it. The Snob. Cambridge, 1829.-Edited by Thackeray, who wrote, among other things, a parody on Tennyson's prize poem Timbuctoo,' which was the talk of the day. It lived for nine numbers. The Gownsman. Cambridge, 1830.-This was another of Thackeray's undertakings. Seventeen numbers appeared. The Eagle. Cambridge, 1867.-The late Prof. Momus.-Another college venture, of which Aberdeen. J. MALCOLM BULLOCH. A CENTURY OLD "PLASTER SCRATCH."-The following inscription is scratched in the plaster near the large window in the "Governor's Room" in the Moorish Castle, Gibraltar :— G. Brown, 25th W. Ross, Royal Artillery} Drummers. May it come through him like dogs hunting sheep mightes. G. Brown. W. Ross. W. Newland, 32nd Regt. Wm Trunnell, Corpl. 25th Regt. Maii, 1651. It. to Andro Carnduff for 4 pund of Tobacco £1 0 0 & tobacco 28 June, It. for tobacco Auchterarder. ... 1 13 4 0 13 9 A. G. REID, F.S.A.Scot. "Is prius quam episcopus factus esset duo preclara This inscription was destroyed in the Fire of Cambridge. - "WOMAN" OR "FEMALE." - When will "the better half of creation " be properly called? The Public Baths of Oldham are now being rebuilt and the two principal entrances bear the word above them "Females," "Males." The kindlines shown to dumb creatures in these later days may be carried beyond the lines of sense if the Corpora tion of Oldham really propose, as they set forth i stone, that hot, cold, and Turkish baths will i the future be provided for cows and bulls, and th females and males generally of all created things Old-fashioned "men" and "women" are evidentl out of date. J. ROSE. Hale Crescent, Farnham. THE PRICE OF TOBACCO IN 1649. (See 7th S. iii. 106.)-Tobacco appears to have been cheap and largely used at this period in Scotland. In a MS. account of household expenses kept by the Rev. William Hamilton, minister of the parish | (vol. i. pp. 142-6), there is an admirable pictur Southport. BOUTER.-In the Life of Crabbe,' by his so of the interior of a Suffolk's yeoman's household at the end of the last century, which those who have not read should read at once, and those who have read will be glad to read again. I quote the following passage for the sake of the word at the head of this note, which is no longer used, and has been commonly misunderstood : "If the sacred apartments had not been opened, the family dined on this wise;-the heads seated in the kitchen at our old table; the farm-men standing in the adjoining scullery, door open-the female servants at a side table, called a bouter; with the principals, at the table, perchance some travelling rat-catcher, or tinker, or farrier, or an occasional gardener in his shirt-sleeves, his face streaming with perspiration." That bouter is nothing more than boulter will be apparent from the accompanying extract from a letter written by Francis Capper Brooke, of Ufford, to Edward Fitzgerald, of Woodbridge, only four days before the death of the latter: "An old inhabitant of Parham says that a Bouter Table' is a Table fitted with a sieve through which four is sifted, and having drawers underneath to receive that flour. It was an ordinary piece of furniture in old houses. An old carpenter in Ufford adds that the ground wheat was put into it, without having any bran detached from the rough mass." WILLIAM ALDIS WRIGHT. Trinity College, Cambridge. 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 the answers may be addressed to them direct, 'RANTING, ROARING WILLIE.'-In an interesting note from K., Arbroath, in 'N. & Q.,' 2nd S. v. 186, a version of the above was given which had been obtained from a lady well versed in the ballad literature of the district in which she was born, and who had had it recalled to her memory by seeing one of Halliwell's Nursery Rbymes.' I have lately received a version identically the same, which is said to have been current about Bellingham in Northumberland, and to have been taken down viva voce; and I am very anxious to know if the version given by K. also came from Northumberland, or whether it was known in any other district. W. E. L. Jos. SIDNEY HORTON.-I wish to ask who this person was. I find his name written on the back of the frames of two water-colour portraits, and do not know whether he was the artist or the subject. The portraits are of men in Eastern dress, and have titles written under each in faded ink: "Admiral Pacha," "Reis Effeindi." The robes are very voluminous, and are trimmed with fur; the ene is red and the other blue; the turbans are quite different in fashion. The face in each case [Is the author Jean Charlier de Gerson? The lines read like him.] BOLOGNIAN ENIGMA. Can any reader of 'N. & Q.' inform me whether any solution of the well-known Bolognian enigma," Ælia Lælia Crispis," &c., has ever been generally accepted; and, if so, what such solution is; or whether the enigma still remains unsolved? W. G. THE GREAT FEAST OF ST. GEORGE.—Will any one tell me where I can find description, and especially pictures, of entertainment given by Edw. III. in 1358 to the King of France, &c.? WILLEM S. LOGEMAN. Newton School, Rock Ferry. JUBILEE OF GEORGE III.-Why was this jubilee kept at the expiration of forty-nine years of his reign? Surely the meaning of fifty years of jubilee is the completion of fifty years. EDWARD R. VYVYAN. there. His name occurs in that most valuable ediMarson of HOLBORN.—I suppose a bookseller tion of the Tatler by Nichols, 1786. At vol. v. p. 428, the editor says he has compiled the memoir from in an account of John Partridge, the almanac-maker, old almanacs annotated with many curious notes in MS., and that Mr. Marsom lent them for the purpose of drawing up the account "in three score volumes or more.' collection and known to the curious? Are they still together in any C. A. WARD. CREATURE DRINK.-How long has the word been used in the above sense? We still talk about "creature comforts," and whiskey is the Irishman's "cratur." The following passages show that the word is not of recent adoption : "Having very exactly viewed the situation of the island, and the way of living of the Enaseéd nation, we went to take a cup of the creature at a tavern."— Rabelais's Works,' ed. Bohn, vol. ii. p. 230. should have liv'd to see Obadiah overcome with the "Oh fie upon 't! Who would have believ'd that we creature."-Sir Robert Howard, The Committee,' Act IV., first acted 1663. F. C. BIRKBECK TERRY. WEST.—Who was the "old West, who I believe is now at Chelsea," mentioned in the Tatler, No. 87? G. A. A. LEE, KING OF THE GIPSIES.-Will any one kindly inform me whether there is truth in the rumour that one Lee, a gipsy king, lies buried in the churchyard of Harrow-on-the-Hill? This was told to my father more than fifty years ago, and perhaps refers to many years previous to that time. No stone or rail exists to his memory, and I do not believe the register records his burial. A. R. THOROLD WINCKLEY. St. John's College, Cambridge. Walter Scott. Can it have come from the two hundred years before the Reformation, when Scottish scholars at foreign universities took what I would now be called the Liberal side in the struggle But has any of your correwith absolutism? spondents heard the contre dicton before? A. TAYLOR INNES. MACKENZIE'S MANUSCRIPT BARONAGE OF SCOTLAND.-I should feel obliged if any of your readers could inform me the date of compilation of Sir George Mackenzie's manuscript baronage of Scotland; and where or in what library it may be P. GRAY. seen. 9, Bell Street, Dundee. PRE-EXISTENCE.-I shall be obliged to any of SOCIETY OF FRIENDLY BROTHERS.-Dr. Oliver's 'Preston's Illustrations of Masonry,' seventeenth edition, London, 1861, p. 387, contains the follow-your readers who will be kind enough to send me ing : "An Act of Parliament passed in this session [1839, apparently] for preventing the administration and taking "That this exemption shall not extend to any such Society or Lodge......under the denomination of a Lodge of Freemasons, or Society of Friendly Brothers of the said Order,' &c." of unlawful oaths in Ireland......provided any references in Western literatures to the idea of pre-existence or reincarnation, either in prose or poetry, passages in the works of prominent authors containing this thought, incidents confirming it, or poetical expressions of it (like Wordsworth's' Intimations of Immortality'). E. D. WALKER. Harper & Brothers' Editorial Rooms, Franklin Square, New York. A Society of Friendly Brothers met in Liverpool some thirty years ago, probably later; but it has MATEMANS," so the Lollards were called, from been extinct for a considerable time. A box their frugal lives and the poverty of their appearsupposed to contain its property is still in existance." If this is correct, what is the derivation of ence. "Friendly Brothers" are unknown to English Freemasonry of the present day. I should be glad to have some information concerning them. · E. S. N. 'LA RUSSIE JUIVE.'-In the most curious and important book lately published in Paris, La Russie Juive' (by the late Calixt de Wolski), I find mentioned, p. 3, a "Compte-rendu des Événements Politico-Historiques survenus dans les Dix Dernières Années' (from 1864 to 1874, I believe). No other description. This work I have never been able to discover in Paris. Could any of your readers afford a satisfying indication of it? C. DE R. Paris. SCOTLAND AND LIBERALISM.-The Indépendence Belge of Oct. 30, 1885, had a notice of a book which had just appeared in London, in which a good many people attempted to answer the arduous question "Why am I a Liberal?" One answer, it observed, was given from Edinburgh, "I am a Liberal because I am a Scotchman"; to which L'Indépendence added the remark, "Ce qui est la contre-partie du dicton: Vous devez être Ecossais, puisque vous êtes libéral." Can any of your readers explain the meaning or existence of this dicton? To what age is it due? The word Liberal, in its technical and political sense, seems to have arisen in France not much earlier than 1830, and during the last fifty years Scotland has been popularly known abroad rather through Sir the word. E. COBHAM Brewer. SIEGE OF BOLTON: HORRIDGE.-Where can the best account be found of the siege of Bolton-leMoors and the defence of Lathom House at the period of the Great Rebellion? Does the name Horridge occur in connexion with either of these events? J. B. WESTMINSTER ABBEY TENOR BELL.-There is a puzzle connected with this which I should like to put before the readers of 'N. & Q.,' in the hope of some one suggesting a solution. To state the problem I must first travel eastward, to the church of St. Michael, Cornhill. In or about 1430 William Rus, citizen and goldsmith, gave this church a new tenor bell, which was named "Rus," after him. (It may be that the gift was prompted by the fact that he was descended from a family of bell-founders.) By his last will seven or eight years later, he founded and endowe a chantry at St. Michael's, to pray for the souls o himself, his wife Isabella, and (inter alia) Joh Whitewell, "his master," i. e., the goldsmith t whom he had been apprenticed, and, I think, whos daughter he had married. The bell lasted till 1587, when, being cracked, was recast by Lawrence Wright, a bell-founde whose commercial morality was not of the highe order. The work was a failure; and in the follow ing year the bell had to be again recast, this tin by Robert Mot, of Whitechapel. The result w THE STOCKS AND THE PILLORY.-The names of any villages in England or Wales still retaining the obsolete instruments of punishment the stocks (with or without the whipping-post) or the pillory, will be gratefully received by ALLAN FEA. Bank of England, E.C. IRISH PRIVY COUNCIL RECORDS.-I shall be grateful to any one who can and will give me any information as to the present custody of the records of the Irish Privy Council about the year 1610. I have made inquiry here at the Public Record Office and at the Privy Council Office, and in Dublin at the Dublin Record Office and at the State Paper Office, Dublin Castle; but no THE REPRINT OF THE FIRST FOLIO SHAKSPEARE OF 1807.-I should be much obliged if any of your readers could tell me where I can see a copy of Upcott's list of 368 errors in this reprint. I believe it was never published; but copies have been made in MS. at various times, and I am told are found sometimes at the end of this reprint. E. B. H. ORESTES BROWNSON.-Has any life been published of the late Orestes Brownson, the American Roman Catholic writer? EDWARD PEACOCK. Bottesford Manor, Brigg. CLAIBORNE, OF WESTMORELAND.-Will any of your readers kindly mention the title of a history of Westmoreland, or other book containing the early records of the family of Claiborne, who formerly belonged to that county? EVELYN. GALILEO. A paragraph has been going the "rounds of the press" to the effect that " a monu-native of Newport. Can any reader of N. & Q.' ment has been erected in Rome, on the Via Pincio, fronting the old Medici Palace, now occupied by the French Embassy, where he was kept a prisoner in 1637, during his prosecution by the Inquisition." Is this date correct? According to the Encyclopædia Britannica,' Galileo read his recantation June 22, 1633, and on July 6 was permitted to depart for Siena to the Archbishop's residence. In December he returned to Florence, where he spent the remainder of his life, and died Jan., 1642. A. L. L. EXTIRP=TO RAIL.-This verb is used in this peculiar sense in Samuel Rowley's 'When You tee Me You know Mee; or, the Famous Chronicle Historie of King Henry the Eight' (F 3, back):— Has set this foole a worke, Thus to extirpe against his holinesse. And (H 2, back):— She did extirpe against his Holinesse. The meaning seems to be "to speak censoriously" or" abusively," "to rail." As it occurs twice, and in the same phrase, it is evidently not a misprint. I cannot find any such signification given to the word in any dictionary. Can any of your readers furnish any instance of a similar use of this verb? F. A. MARSHALL. 8, Bloomsbury Square, W.C. JOHN FROST, THE CHARTIST.-Frost was a kindly give me the exact date of his birth? For many years after his return to England he resided at Stapleton, near Bristol, and died on July 29, 1877. I shall be glad to know where he was buried, and if his age is given on his tombstone. G. F. R. B. CARGO.-In Ben Jonson's 'Poetaster,' V. iii., we have, "A couple of condemn'd caitive calumnious cargo's." Gifford explains, "Bullies or bravoes." He notes that the word is sometimes used by our old poets as an interjection. Of this But cargo! my fiddlestick cannot play without rosin. Gifford says the word has been referred to Italian 14, Norham Road, Oxford, C. B. MOUNT. "THE COUNTRY BOX, BY ROBERT LLOYD, A. M." -What is known of this "ingenious writer"? I |