Saynt Dounstones paryshe at the Syne of the George, part of her original legend; though, as she has been by me Robert Redman." On the last page Redman's device: 4to., containing three sheets. Without regarding Margaret's troubles, the miraculous assistance rendered by an angel bring ing her "Parte of the crosse that God was on done," which had the effect not only of slaying the dragon, but enabling her to come "out hole and sounde," after having been swallowed "body and bone" by the aforesaid monster, I will transcribe the first few lines, in order to identify the work, should any other copy come to light: "Here begynneth of Saynt Margarete The dragon, concerning whom your correspondent more particularly inquires, is thus shortly described: "She loked a lytell her besyde, And sawe a fowle dragon by her glyde, &c. &c. The copy here described was found in a volume of tracts at a farmhouse in Somersetshire, and is now in my possession. P. B. The church at Stoke-Golding, in this county, is also dedicated to St. Margaret the Virgin; and while prosecuting my researches for an historical account of the fabric, I fell in with the following notice of the legend in Brady's Clavis Calendaria, London, 1813, 2nd edit., vol. ii. pp. 103-105.: "Saint Margaret, whose festival (20th July) has been restored to our calendar, after having been once expunged, was the daughter of an idolatrous priest at Antioch, in Syria, a person distinguished as having been one of the greatest enemies to the Christian doctrine. Being remarkable for personal charms, Olybius, the president of the east, became enamoured of our saint, and used every effort in his power, supported by the authority of her father, to make her abjure the Christian religion, to which she had recently been converted; but not being able either to induce or to terrify her into such renunciation, he caused her to be put to the most cruel torments, and afterwards to be decapitated, about the year 275. The history of St. Margaret, in the earliest breviaries of the Romish Church, was fraught with such impious and absurd anecdotes, that they have been from time to time so much altered and amended as scarcely to retain any worshipped with extreme fervour by both the Eastern females in child-birth, one miracle was necessarily and Western Churches, for a supposed power in assisting tury, as an explanation of the cause of that peculiar preserved, until nearly the end of the seventeenth cenprovince having been assigned to this saint. Neither Olybius, nor her father, having been capable of diverting her from a steady adherence to the Christian faith, recourse was had, say her monkish historians, to the assistance of Satan himself, who, in the shape of a dragon, swallowed her alive; though she speedily burst from that horrid confinement, and effected her escape. So miraculous a circumstance naturally pointed out the peculiar powers over which Providence designed her to have empire; for who could so well be capable of aiding the struggle of the yet unborn infant, as one who had extricated herself even from the body of the arch enemy. The girdle of this virgin saint was long stated to have been kept in pious custody at St. Germain's Abbey at Paris; and being girt with it, was universally esteemed of the utmost service to ladies who were likely soon to require the assistance of the obstetric art; but the holy friars were obliged to superintend the ceremony: a piece of charity,' says an old author, to give them their due, they were seldom wanting in.' "The Eastern Church records this saint under the appellations of St. Pelagia and St. Marina, while the Western Church pays reverence to her by the name of St. Geruma, or, as our calendar retains it, St. Margaret." There is a representation of this virgin saint in stained glass in the north aisle of the choir in Winchester Cathedral; she is represented treading a blue dragon, spotted yellow, under her feet. There is also a representation of her on the font at Stoke-Golding in the same attitude, with a small female figure praying to her. On the comNicholas; and on that of the right, one of St. partment on the left is a representation of St. Catherine. See Papers on Architecture published by J. Weale, 1844, Plate VI., art. "An Historical Account of the Church of Saint Margaret, Stoke-Golding, Leicestershire." At the time I took my sketches of the church, on a boss in the centre of the ceiling-beam in the south aisle, a little eastward of the south entrance, was a rude carving representing a female in the act of self-delivery, but whether it now exists I THOS. L. WAlker. cannot tell. Leicester. I happen to have a cast from a small oval seal representing St. Margaret standing on a dragon, surrounded by the legend, "Margareta. ora. pro nobis." I believe the original matrix is in the possession of Mr. Chalmers of Auldbar. E. N. Replies to Minor Queries. Donne versus Francis Davison (Vol. vi., p. 49.). -The translation of Psalm cxxxvii., as inserted in Select poetry of the reign of Elizabeth, seems to have been ascribed to Francis Davison on the authority of Sir Harris Nicolas, who printed it from the Harleian MS. 6930., with many others by Francis and Christopher Davison, as an appendix to the Poetical rhapsody which he edited in 1826. He admits that the signatures in that manuscript "are not in the same autograph as the manuscript itself, but appear to have been added some time afterwards.' It is therefore very questionable evidence. The Poems of Donne were first collectively published in 1633, 4to. On that edition much reliance cannot be placed, as it includes An epitaph upon Shakespeare which was certainly written by William Basse. The editions of 1635 and 1639, both in octavo, are not much superior to it, except in the omission of that epitaph. It was in 1650and not in 1635, as Malone asserts that John Donne, the civilian, gave the first complete edition of the poems of his father; and as that edition contains the psalm in question, the claim made for Francis Davison must be set aside. The edition of 1650 is dedicated "To the right honourable William lord Craven, baron of Hamsted-Marsham." It was reprinted in 1669. BOLTON CORNEY. Henry Lord Dover (Vol. vi., pp. 10. 86).-It may be interesting to your correspondent whose inquiries relate to Henry Jermyn, first Baron Jermyn of Dover, third Baron Jermyn of St. Edmund's Bury and Earl of Dover by creation of James II. after his abdication, to be informed that a description of that nobleman's tomb (formerly in the church of the Carmelite monks at Bruges) will be found in a forthcoming number of The Topographer and Genealogist. He died April 6, 1708, at Cheveley in Cambridgeshire, and his remains were, by his desire, carried to Bruges for burial. A drawing of the monument alluded to is preserved in the MS. "Sepultur der Stadt Brugge," in the Bibliothèque Publique at Bruges, vol. vi. f. 206., whence my description of it. Among the archives of Bruges in the Hôtel de Ville is a commission signed by James II., dated Dublin Castle, December 17, 1689, appointing Darby Morphy, Esq., Captain-Lieut. to Lord Hunsdon's regiment of foot. His name may, therefore, occur in your correspondent's list of the dethroned monarch's officers. A family of De Morphy had previously to this date become located at Bruges. G. STEINMAN STEINMAN. "Experto crede Roberto" (Vol. vi., p. 107.).— The fact mentioned by J. H. M. is much too modern. Before I asked for the origin of the phrase (Vol. iii., p. 353.), I had seen an adaptation of it to himself, in his own handwriting, by James I., "Experto crede Jacobo;" and had also made a note of it as occurring in a discourse of Ulricus Vellum-bound Books (Vol. v., p. 607.).—In answer to MR. CORNEY (although not "in search of a vellum-bound Junius "), I beg to say that the phrase "vellum manner is in common use with us bookbinders; it is used to describe a particular method of sewing and forming the back of a book, without the hard projecting joints, which are formed by hammering the book while in the press. The vellum manner is very strong and free in opening; account books are bound upon this principle, it is also extensively used by the British and Foreign Bible Society: the book is sewed upon strips of vellum or tape, or on thongs as of old. Books bound in vellum style are also much less injured for rebinding than when the back is cut in for cords and hammered into joints; perhaps the advertiser had an eye to this point, he having been guilty of joining together that which the author had intended should have been kept asunder. J. LEIGHTON. 40. Brewer Street. - Monody on the Death of Sir John Moore (Vol. vi., p. 80.). The parody on the monody referred to by your correspondents C. H. COOPER and T. H. KERSLEY is to be found in the first volume of Ingoldsby Legends, p. 111., where the author, the Rev. Thomas Barham, says: "In the autumn of 1824, Captain Medwin having hinted that certain beautiful lines on the burial of this gallant officer might have been the production of Lord Byron's muse, the late Mr. Sydney Taylor, somewhat indignantly, claimed them for their rightful owner, the late Rev. Charles Wolfe. During the controversy a third claimant started up in the person of a soi-disant Doctor Marshall, who turned out to be a Durham blacksmith, and his pretensions a hoax. It was then that a certain Doctor Peppercorn put forth his pretensions to what he averred was the only true and original' version, viz. (here follows the parody as given by MR. KERSLEY): Hos ego versiculos feci, tulit alter honores.'- Virgil. I wrote the lines - M-owned them he told stories!'" Thomas Ingoldsby. The production of the parody had been ascribed to Praed and others, until the admission of Barham was made that he was its author, as given above. L. JEWITT. The Hereditary Standard Bearer (Vol. v., p. 609.). The present "Hereditary Royal Standard Bearer," Frederick Lewis Scrymgeour-Wed derburn, of Wedderburn and Birkhill, is paternally a Scrymgeour, the surname of Wedderburn having been first assumed by his uncle (to whom his father succeeded) on inheriting the estate of the same name in 1778. In the account of the Maitland family, in Douglas's Peerage, I can find no mention of the office of "Hereditary Standard Bearer," which is assigned to the Earl of Lauderdale in modern Peerages, and also in the list of the "Royal Household" (Scotland) contained in Oliver and Boyd's Edinburgh Almanack. In the course of the proceedings before the Privy Council, in 1823, on the dispute between the Duke of Hamilton and Lord Douglas relative to the right of bearing the Scottish crown at royal processions, it was stated by Mr. Warren (one of Lord Douglas' counsel) that the office of Standard Bearer in Scotland had been seized by creditors, and sold, under a judgment of the Scotch Courts." Perhaps some reader of "N. & Q." may be able to 66 communicate the case to which the learned counsel referred, which I have hitherto failed to discover, and which in all probability will throw some light upon the subject of your correspondent's inquiry. E. N. Baxter's "Saint's Rest" (Vol. vi., p. 86.). — I have before me a copy of this admirable book, which proves that the author of the Scholar Armed was wrong in speaking of "the two editions printed before the year 1660;" seeing that my copy purports to be "the seventh edition," and was printed in 1658. I have no opportunity of comparing it with any later impression, but it certainly contains a passage, Part I. chap. 7. sec. 4., which bears out to a great extent the criticism quoted by your correspondent R. G. Before coming to it, I will transcribe as a somewhat curious matter, the assemblage of divines whom he brings together amongst the spirits of the just men made perfect:" 66 "Will it be nothing conducible (he says) to the compleating of our comforts, to live eternally with Peter, Paul, Austin, Chrysostom, Jerom, Wickliffe, Luther, Zuinglius, Calvin, Beza, Bullinger, Zanchius, Pareus, Piscator, Camero, with Hooper, Bradford, Latimer, Glover, Saunders, Philpot,-with Reignolds, Whitaker, Cartwright, Brightman, Bayne, Bradshaw, Bolton, Ball, Hildersham, Penible, Twisse, Ames, Preston, Sibbs?" And, after some further remarks, he proceeds: “I think, Christian, this will be a more honorable assembly than you ever here beheld and a more happy society than you were ever of before. Surely Brook, and Pim, and Hampden, and White, &c., are now members of a more knowing, unerring, well-ordered, right-ayming, self-denying, unanimous, honorable, triumphant senate, than this from whence they were taken is, or ever Parliament will be. It is better to be door-keeper to that Assembly, whither Twisse, &c. are translated, than to have continued here the Moderator Bayle, in his Dictionary, under the word "Cain," "Sacrum pingue dabo," &c. (Vol. vi., p. 36.).— attributes this distich to Politian. Father Mabillon also attributes it to him. It is, however, commonly supposed to have a higher antiquity. There is another distich equally curious: "Patrum dicta probo, nec sacris belligerabo Belligerabo sacris, nec probo dicta patrum." The first verse is from a Catholic, the second from a Huguenot. Again, a third: "Retro mente labo, non metro continuabo; Continuabo metro; non labo mente retro." A tutor explaining one of the odes of Horace to his scholars, after the explanation of each ode dictated in hexameter verses the ode he had explained. He did this, he said, as an exercise. It cost him some trouble: he hesitated sometimes in his dictation, and substituted other words occasionally. His pupils thought the composition had been prepared. Some thought he would not succeed in his effort: and others maintained that, having begun, it was a point of honour to complete his task. The context gave rise to the distich. JAMES CORnish. Age of Trees (Vol. vi., pp. 18. 45.).— Your correspondents AGMOND and UNICORN would confer a favour on me and other readers, if they would have the kindness to state the evidence for the age of the five remarkable trees, in Switzerland and France, to which they advert. As has been shown in former Numbers, an impression often prevails that a tree of unusual size is likewise of great antiquity. It rarely happens, however, that factory evidence. When, for instance, it is said the age of a tree can be determined by any satis ascertained by M. Berthelet to be more than 1200 years old, it would be interesting to know the method by which this result has been obtained, and how he has proved that this tree began growing before 650 a.d. It is clear that he cannot have counted the rings, as the tree is still standing. Again, if it is a historical fact that a colossal oak that a certain fir-tree near Mont Blanc has been in the department of the Vosges was known in the time of Philip Augustus, and has lived during a period of 650 years, the grounds on which this assertion is made admit of explanation. L. Scot of Satchell (Vol. vi., p. 10.). — In reply to your correspondent SIGMA I beg to acquaint him that there are three editions of Scot's True History of the Families of Scot, viz.: 1. Edinburgh: 1688, small 4to. 2. Edinburgh: 1776, small 4to. 3. Hawick: 1786, small 8vo. And, Satchell was the name of his residence in Roxburghshire. He was one of the Sinton and Harden branches of the numerous families of Scot. I may mention that all of the editions are now scarce, particularly the first one, a copy of which was sold at the Roxburghe Sale for 21. 4s. In Blackwood's and also in Laing's Catalogues for 1812 and 1819, copies are marked at 17. 11s. 6d. T. G. S. Edinburgh. At p. 162. of a curious catalogue of books published in 1850 by the well-known antiquarian bookseller, Mr. Stevenson of Edinburgh, I find the following: "Captain Walter Scot's True History of the Families of the Name of Scot and Elliot, in the Shires of Roxburgh and Selkirk, gathered out of Ancient Chronicles, Histories, and Traditions of our Fathers. Quarto, 1688: Reprint, 1766." I am sorry that I cannot answer the other part of SIGMA'S Query as to the reason why the Captain was called "Old Satchells." E. N. Exterior Stoups (Vol. vi., p. 19.).—I think your correspondent who stated that there was an exterior holy-water stoup at Winchester Cathedral must have made only a cursory examination, and have mistaken for stoups two projections from the south wall of the nave. These, however, are about six feet from the ground, and would be completely out of the reach of those forming a large part of a Catholic congregation, namely, females. They are, moreover, perfectly flat on their upper surface. They are placed on the right side, on entering, of two doors, one of which is at the angle formed by the nave with the south transept, the other midway between the transept and the west front. There is no other projection at all resembling a stoup on the exterior of the building that I can discover. HOLDE FASTE FAYTHE. Winton. In answer to CUTHBERT BEDE's inquiry (Vol. v., p. 560.), I have much pleasure in pointing out to him a solitary example in this county of a holywater stoup on the exterior of the south wall of the south porch at Hungarton. It grows out, as it were, of the basement moulding, and has a canopy over it. The porch is itself a beautiful example of the Perpendicular Period; and, should your correspondent desire it, I will gladly exchange sketches with him. THOMAS L. WALKER. Leicester. There is an exterior holy-water stoup still remaining, if I remember rightly, at Badgeworth Church in Gloucestershire. I may possibly be mistaken in the church; but any correspondent residing at Cheltenham could easily ascertain the fact. There is also one, much resembling a small font, outside the door of the chapel at Haddon Hall in Derbyshire. W. FRASER. There is an exterior holy-water stoup at the south side of the west door of the church at West Ham, near Pevensey, Sussex. E. H. Y. "Royd," &c. (Vol. v., p. 620.). — May not the common root of all be root, to root out, to clear; going beyond the backwoods fashion of cutting down the trees knee high, and leaving the stumps and roots to rot out at leisure? And yet the backJ. Ss. woodsmen call this a clearing. Pichigni (Vol. vi., p. 75.).-In the Dictionary of T. B. (Blount), published in London, 1670, is the following notice of Pickigni: "PICKIGNI (Fr.), by the pronunciation of this word in France, aliens were discerned from the native French: as Shibboleth among the Hebrews (Judges xii. 6.). So likewise (in Sands his Travels, fol. 239.) you may read how the Genoese were distinguished from the Venetians by naming a sheep. And in our own history, the Flemings (in Wat Tyler's Rebellion) were distinguished from English by pronouncing bread and cheese, &c."-Stow's Survey, fol. 51. C. B. C. Cowdray Family (Vol. vi., p. 75.).—In answer to W. H. L. I beg to state, that a family named Cowdery resided some twenty-five years ago at Godstone in Surrey. Some of the females of the family are still resident there, and represent themselves as having been in former times in much higher circumstances. The head of the family whom I remember there was a brush-maker in the Strand, having his country-house at Godstone. P. G. T. H. James Murray, titular Earl of Dunbar (Vol. vi., 11.).-Mungo Murray, of Broughton, who got a charter of the lands of Egernes and Ballinteir in 1508, ancestor of the Murrays of Broughton in the Stewartry of Kirkcudbright, was second son of Cuthbert Murray, of Cockpool, whose lineal descendant was created Earl of Annandale in 1624. That title became extinct in 1658, but the present heir of line of the family is the Earl of Mansfield, in consequence of the marriage of David, fifth Viscount Stormont, to the lineal representative of Armorial Bearings of Cities and Towns (Vol. vi., p. 54.). The arms of the principal cities and towns in England will be found curiously engraved in Bickham's British Monarchy, published in the year 1743. E. N. The Black Rood of Scotland (Vol. v., p. 440.).— The inventory made at Burgh-upon-Sands, July 17, 35 Edw. Í. (A.D. 1307), contains an important notice of this famous historical relique: "In Coffro signato supius signo Crucis. Videlt', crux Neygli' ornata auro et lapid' p'cios' una cum pede ejusd' crucis de auro et gēmis in quadā casula de corr' ex coffr' deo pedi aptata. It'. La Blakerode de Scot' fabricata in auro cu cathena aur' in teca int'i' lignea et ext'i' de arg' deaur'. "It' Crux Sue Elene de Scot'. [etc.]."- See the Proceedings of the Record Comm., p. 550. Having recently met with the above entries, I am glad to ask you to add them to what has been written on this point. WM. SIDNEY Gibson. Newcastle-on-Tyne. Birthplace of Wycliffe (Vol. vi., p. 55.).—In the Rev. Dr. Vaughan's Life of Wycliffe, vol. i. p. 230., it is proved almost to a certainty that the venerable reformer was born at a humble village of the name of Wycliffe, about six miles from the town of Richmond in Yorkshire. Your correspondent SEVARG is referred to the interesting Life of Wycliffe quoted above. JOHN ALGOR. Eldon Street, Sheffield. Miscellaneous. NOTES ON BOOKS, ETC. Every day, every hour, does the interest in that great discovery, which more than realises Puck's boast "I'll put a girdle round about the earth In forty minutes " grow with the increased application of it. A popular, but at the same time, a clear, distinct, and scientific account of its origin and progress, cannot, therefore, be otherwise than welcome, and such will be found in the newly published part of the Traveller's Library, entitled Electricity and the Electric Telegraph, to which is added the Chemistry of the Stars, by Dr. George Wilson. The other part published by Messrs. Longman for the present month is Lord Bacon, in which Mr. Macaulay presents us with a brilliant portrait of "England's high chancellor, the destined heir, In his soft cradle, to his father's chair." Mr. Darling, the proprietor of the well-known Clerical Library and Reading Rooms, has just commenced what promises to be a most useful work; it is entitled Cyclopædia Bibliographica, a Library Manual of Theo logical and General Literature, and Guide for Authors, Preachers, Students, and Literary Men; Analytical, Bibliographical, and Biographical, and cannot be better described than in the words of the prospectus, which states that it "is founded chiefly on the books contained in the Metropolitan Library (Clerical and General),' and will comprise nearly all authors of note, ancient and modern, in Theology, Ecclesiastical History, Moral Philosophy, and the various departments connected therewith, including a selection in most branches of Literature, with short Biographical Notices and Catalogue of each Author's works, which will be complete in regard to those whose works are published collectively; and the contents of each volume will be entific as well as alphabetical Arrangement of Subjects, minutely described. To which will be added a sciby which a ready reference may be made to Books, Treatises, Sermons, and Dissertations, on nearly all heads of Divinity; the Books, Chapters, and Verses of Holy Scripture; the Festivals, Fasts, &c., observed throughout the year; and useful Topics in Literature, Philosophy, and History, on a more complete system than has yet been attempted in any language, and forming an Index to the Contents of all similar Libraries, both public and private, and a Cyclopædia of the sources of Information and Discussion in Theology, and, to a great extent, in Universal Knowledge." The work will be published in monthly parts of eighty The first, pages, and be complete in two volumes. which will be complete in itself, will be finished in twenty parts. It appears to be very carefully compiled, and is replete with useful information. "Judging," says The Athenæum, "by the number of new books which we see announced, or which we hear of in our immediate circles, the literary prospects of the coming season are not below the usual promise of the autumn. The activity seems to pervade all spheres, 'from grave to gay - from lively to severe.' In History, we expect an early appearance of four volumes by the Chevalier Bunsen on Hippolytus and his Age, a History of the Ionian Islands, by Mr. Bowen, and some portion of a History of Europe from the Fall of Napoleon in 1815 to the Re-establishment of Military Government in France in 1851, by Sir A. Alison. Somewhat later in the season may be expected the Hon. Capt. Devereux's Lives of the Earls of Essex, - Mr. Hepworth Dixon's Domestic Story of the Civil War, the seventh and concluding volume of Lord Mahon's History of England, — and a new historical work from the pen of Mr. Carlyle. In the semi-historical department of literature we shall have two volumes of Fresh Discoveries at Nineveh and Researches at Babylon, from Dr. Layard, - Leaves from my Journal during the year 1851, by a Member of the late Parliament, Hon. Mr. Neville's Anglo-Saxon Remains, new volume of Miss Strickland's Lives of the Queens of Scotland. Among books of travel, or books recording the results of travel, we shall have Mr. Mansfield Perkin's Personal Narrative of an Englishman resident in Abyssinia, Isis; an Egyptian Pilgrimage, by Mr. J. A. St. John, Village Life in Egypt, by Mr. Bayle St. John, - Mr. Palliser's Solitary Rambles and Adventures and Dr. Sunderland's of a Hunter in the Prairies, Journal of a Voyage in Baffin's Bay and Barrow's Straits - .the and a |