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An iron hour-glass stand still remains near the pulpit in the church of Ashby-Folville, in this county (Leicester). It is fixed to the wall containing the staircase to the rood-loft.
In the old church of Anstey, recently pulled down and rebuilt, was an ancient hour-glass stand, consisting of a pillar of oak, about four feet high, the top of which is surmounted by a light framework of wood for the reception of the hour-glass. This specimen is preserved in the museum of this town.
WILLIAM KELLY.
Marriage of Cousins (Vol. viii., p. 387.).—If there is any foundation for such a statement as is contained in the Query of J. P. relative to the marriage of cousins, it consists rather in the marriage of first cousins once removed than of second cousins. It will be seen that the latter relationship belongs to the same generation, but it is not so with the former, which partakes more of the nature of uncle and aunt with nephew and niece.
W. SLOANE SLOANE-EVANS.
Cornworthy Vicarage, Totnes.
There is no legal foundation for the statement that marriage with a second cousin is valid, and with a first cousin invalid. The following quotation from Burn's Ecc. Law by Phill., vol. ii. p. 449., will probably be considered to explain the matter:
"By the civil law first cousins are allowed to marry, but by the canon law both first and second cousins (in order to make dispensations more frequent and necessary) are prohibited; therefore, when it is vulgarly said that first cousins may marry, but second cousins cannot, probably this arose by confounding these two laws, for first cousins may marry by the civil law, and second cousins cannot by the canon law."
J. G.
Exon.
Waugh, Bishop of Carlisle (Vol. viii., p. 271.), was the son of Thomas and Margaret Waugh, of Appleby, in Westmoreland; born there 2nd February, 1655; educated at Appleby school; matriculated at Queen's College, Oxford, 4th of April, 1679; took his degree of M.A. the 7th of July, 1687; and elected Fellow on the 18th of January following. He married Elizabeth, widow of the Rev. Mr. Fiddes, rector of Bridewell, in Oxford, who was the only surviving child of John Machen, Esq., of ——, in the county of Oxford, by whom he left son, John Waugh, afterwards chancellor of the diocese of Carlisle.
KARLEOLENSIS.
Marriage Service (Vol. viii., p. 150.).—I have been many years in holy orders, and have always received the fee together with the ring on the Prayer Book, as directed in the Rubric. The ring I return to the bridegroom to place upon the bride's finger; the fee (or offering) I deposit in the offertory basin, held for that purpose by the clerk, and on going to the chancel (the marriage taking place in the body of the church) lay it on the altar. Note.—In the parish in which I first ministered, the marriages had always been commenced in the body of the church, as directed; in the second parish in which I ministered, that custom had only been broken by the present incumbent a few years since.
A RECTOR.
I have seen the Rubric carried out in this particular, in St. Mary's Church, Kidderminster.
CUTHBERT BEDE, B.A.
Hoby, Family of (Vol. viii., p. 243.).—In answer to MR. J. B. WHITBORNE, I beg to state that the Rev. Sir Philip Hoby, Baronet, was in the early part of the last century chancellor of the archdiocese of Dublin. He was an intimate friend of Archbishop Cobbe, and there is a picture of him in canonicals at Newbridge, co. Dublin.
T. C.
Cambridge Graduates (Vol. viii., p. 365.).—Your correspondent will find a list of B.A.'s of Cambridge University from the years 1500 to 1717 in Add. MS. 5885., British Museum.
GLAIUS.
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"I own I like not," &c. (Vol. viii., p. 366.).—The lines—
"I own like not Johnson's turgid style," &c.
are by Peter Pindar, whose works I have not, and so cannot give an exact reference. The extract containing them will be found in Chambers' Cyclopaedia of English Literature, vol. ii. p. 298.
P. J. F. GANTILLON, B.A.
"Topsy Turvy" (Vol. viii., p. 385.).—This is ludicrously derived, in Roland Cashel, p. 104., from top side t'other way.
P. J. F. GANTILLON, B.A.
"When the Maggot bites" (Vol. viii., pp. 244. 304. 353.).—Another illustration of this phrase may be found in Swift (Introduction to Tale of a Tub):
"The two principal qualifications (says he) of a fanatic preacher are, his inward light, and his head full of maggots; and the two different fates of his writings are to be burnt or worm-eaten."
The word maggot is sometimes used for the whim or crotchet itself; thus Butler:
"To reconcile our late dissenters, Our brethren though by different venters; Unite them and their different maggots, As long and short sticks are in faggots."—Hudibras, part III. canto 2.
So also it is used by Samuel Wesley (father of the founder of the Methodists) in his rare and facetious volume entitled Maggots, or Poems on several Subjects never before handled, 12mo., 1685.
WILLIAM BATES.
Birmingham.
"Salus populi," &c. (Vol. viii., p. 410.).—The saying "Salus populi supreme lex" is borrowed from the model law of Cicero, in his treatise de Legibus, III. 3. It is made one of the duties of the consuls, the supreme magistrates, to regard the safety of the state as their highest rule of conduct:
"Regio imperio duo sunto; iique praeeundo, judicando, consulendo Praetores, Judices, Consules appellantor. Militiae summum jus habento, nemini parento: ollis salus populi suprema lex esto."
The allusion appears to be to the formula used by the senate for conferring supreme power on the consuls in cases of emergency: "Dare operam, ne quid respublica detrimenti caperet." (See Sallust, Bell. Cat. c. 29.)
L.
Aristotle regards the safety of the citizens as the great end of law (see his Ethics, b. I. ch. 4.); and Cicero (de Finibus, lib. ii. c. 5.) lays down a similar principle.
B. H. C.
Theodoro Paleologus (Vol. viii., p. 408.).—The inscription referred to was printed in Archaeologia, vol. xviii., and with some account of the Paleologi to which a Querist was referred in "N. & Q.," Vol. v., p. 280. (see also pp. 173. 357.). It is astonishing how much will be found in that "Californian mine," if the most excellent indices of the several volumes are only consulted. Your correspondent could in the present case have pointed out the errors of the inscription already in print had the indices to "N. & Q." attracted him.
J.
Worm in Books (Vol. viii., p. 412).—In reply to ALETHES I beg to acquaint him that I have tried various means for destroying the worm in old books and MSS., and the most effectual has been the chips of Russia leather; indeed, in but one instance have I known them fail.
NEWBURIENSIS.
The Porter Family (Vol. viii., p. 364.).—1. The reason of the word Agincourt being placed above the inscription in Bristol Cathedral is, that the Porter family were descendants of Sir William Porter who fought at Agincourt.
2. Charles Lempriere Porter was the son of Dr. Porter.
3. This family was descended from Endymion Porter of classic and loyal memory.[3]
J. R. W.
Bristol.
[Footnote 3: [The biographical notices of Endymion Porter are extremely scanty. Can our correspondent furnish any particulars respecting him?—ED.]]
Buckle (Vol. viii., p. 304.).—This word is in common use by the artizans who work upon sheet-iron, to denote the curl which a sheet of iron acquires in passing through a pair of rollers. The word has been derived from the French boucle, a curl. The shoe-buckle has got its name from its curved form. In the days in which every man in this country, who was in easy circumstances, wore a wig, it was well known that to put a wig in buckle, meant to arrange its curls in due form.
"When Hopkins dies, a thousand lights attend The wretch, who living sav'd a candle's end: Should'ring God's altar a vile image stands, Belies his features, nay, extends his hands; That live-long wig which Gorgon's self might own, Eternal buckle takes in Parian stone."—Pope, Moral Essays, Epistle III.
N. W. S.
The "Forlorn Hope" (Vol. viii., p. 411.).—This is no quotation; but the expression arose in the army from its leader or captain, who, being often a disappointed man, or one indifferent to consequences, now ran the "forlorn hope" either of ending his days or obtaining a tomb in Westminster Abbey. From the captain, after a time, the term descended to all the little gallant band. In no part of our community will you find such {527} meaning expressions (often very slang ones) used as in the army. A lady, without hearing anything to shock "ears polite," might listen to the talk of a mess table, and be unable to understand clearly in what the conversation consisted. "He is gone to the bad"—meaning, he is ruined. "A wigging from the office" (a very favourite expression)—a reprimand from the colonel. "Wigging" naturally arising from tearing the hair in anger or sorrow, and the office of course substituting the place from whence it comes for the person who sent it. Besides may others, quae nunc, &c.
A DRAGOON.
Nightingale and Thorn (Vol. iv., p. 175., &c.).—
"If I had but a pottle of sack, like a sharp prickle, To knock my nose against when I am nodding, I should sing like a nightingale."—Fletcher, The Lover's Progress, Act III. Sc. 2.
W. J. BERNHARD SMITH.
Temple.
Burial in Unconsecrated Ground (Vol. vi., p. 448.; Vol. viii., p. 43.).—The following curious entry occurs in the parish register of Pimperne, Dorset:
"Anno 1627. Vicesimo quinto Octobris.
"Peregrinus quidam tempore pestes in communi campo mortuus eodem loco quo inventus sepultus."
There was a pestilence in England in 1625. In 1628 sixteen thousand persons died of the plague at Lyons.
W. E.
I do not know whether the case recorded in London Labour and the London Poor, vol. i. p. 411.—by the way, is that work ever to be completed, and how far has it gone?—of a man buried at the top of a house at Foot's Cray, in Kent, has been noticed by any correspondent.
P. J. F. GANTILLON, B.A.
Sangaree (Vol. iii., p. 141.).—I take it that the word ought to be spelled sansgris, being derived from the French words sans, without, and gris, tipsy, meaning a beverage that would not make tipsy. I have been a good deal in the French island of Martinique, and they use the term frequently in this sense as applied to a beverage made of white wine ("Vin de Grave"), syrup, water, and nutmeg with a small piece of fresh lime-skin hanging over the edge of the glass. A native of Martinique gave me this as the derivation of the word. The beverage ought not to be stirred after the nutmeg is put in it, as the fastidious say it would spoil the flavour.
T. B.
Point of Etiquette (Vol. viii., p. 386.).—The title Miss, without the Christian name, belongs to the eldest unmarried daughter of the representative of the family only. If he have lost his own children, his brother is heir presumptive merely to the family honours; and can neither assume nor give to his daughter the titles to which they are only expectants. The matter becomes evident, if you test the rule by a peerage instead of a squirage. Even the eldest daughter of a baronet or landed gentleman loses her title of Miss, when her brother succeeds to the representation, provided he have a daughter to claim the title.
P. P.
Etymology of "Monk" and "Till," &c. (Vol. viii., pp. 291. 409.).—Will you allow me one word on these two cases? Monk is manifestly a Greek formative from [Greek: monos], and denotes a solitaire.
The proposed derivation of till, from to-while, is not new; but still clearly mistaken, inasmuch as the word till is found in Scotch, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, and others of the family. A word thus compounded would be of less general use. Besides which, to-while would scarcely produce such a form as till; it would rather change the t into an aspirate, which would appear as th.
B. H. C.
Forrell (Vol. vii., p. 630.).—Your correspondent T. HUGHES derives this word (applied in Devonshire, as he tells us, to the cover of book) from forrell, "a term still used by the trade to signify an inferior kind of vellum." Is it not more natural to suppose it to be the same word which the French have made fourreau, a cover or sheath? (See Du Cange, vv. Forellus, Forrellus.)
J. H. T.
Dublin.
Parochial Libraries (Vol. vii., p. 507.; Vol. viii. passim).—There is a library at Wimborne Minster, in the Collegiate Church, which, on my visit two years since, appeared to contain some valuable volumes, and was neglected and in very bad condition.
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page 520, "Santa Maria Novella at Florence": 'Santa Marca Novella' in original.
page 521, "Templaria ... Sm. 4to. 1828-29.": 'Sm. 4vo.' in original.
page 529, "Brief History of its Formation": 'Formatiom' in original.
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