Filius, from a tripod, a three-legged stool, in humble imitation of the Delphic oracle. It is mentioned in the statute De tollendis ineptiis in publicis disputationibus*, an 1626-ut prævaricatores, tripodes, alii que omnes disputantes veterum academia formam, &c. JAMES CORNISH.

Monody on the Death of Sir John Moore (Vol. i., p. 445.).— If any person entertains a doubt that the Rev. Charles Wolfe was the author, I trust that the following statement will have the effect of removing it. In the October number of the Dublin University Magazine, 1851, there is a short biographical notice of the late much lamented Rev. Samuel O'Sullivan, which contains the following passage:

"One of his intimate acquaintances was Charles Wolfe. The exquisite lines on the burial of Sir John Moore were suggested by O'Sullivan reading to him the description in the Annual Register of the retreat from Corunna. Immediately after, the two friends went out to wander in the fields. During their ramble Wolfe was silent and moody. On their return to their College chambers he repeated the first and last stanzas of the ode that has made his name immortal."

Knowing the source from which this assertion emanates, I have no reason to suspect the veracity of the writer.

There is an additional proof, which is well worthy of being recorded in your pages, and of which I have had ocular demonstration. In the Royal Irish Academy there is an original letter, framed, in the handwriting of Wolfe, of which I send you an exact fac-simile. You will perceive that it contains a copy of the poem, and that his signature is attached to it. I need not add any

*The following, from the facetious Fuller, will serve to show to what lengths they went formerly in ineptiis (See his Worthies, edit. 1684): "When Morton, afterwards Bishop of Durham, stood for the degree of D. D. at Cambridge, he advanced something which was displeasing to the professor, who exclaimed, with some warmth, Commosti mihi stomachum.' To whom Mor. ton replied,Gratulor tibi, Reverende Professor, de bono tuo stomacho, cœnabis apud me hâc nocte.' The English word stomach formerly signified passion, indignation.' Archbishop Cranmer appointed one Travers to a fellowship at Trinity College, who had been before rejected (says my author) on account of his intolerable stomach.' This would be thought a singular discommendation in the present day." To add another story from Fuller relating to Publicis Disputationibus:- "When a professor of logic pressed an answerer with a hard argument, Reverende Professor,' said he, ingenue confiteor me non posse respondere huic argumento.' To whom the Professor, Recte respondis.'"-Holy and Profane State. Vide Gradus ad Cantabrigiam, a little book published by W. J. and J. Richardson, 1803.

Many Children at a Birth (Vol. iii., pp. 64. 347.).-In The Natural History of Wiltshire: by John Aubrey, F.R.S., edited by John Britton, Esq., is the following passage:

"At Wishford Magna is an inscription to Thomas Bonham and Edith his wife, who died 1473 and 1469. Mrs. Bonham had two children at one birth the first time; and he being troubled at it, travelled, and was absent seven years. After his returne, she was delivered of seven children at one birth. In this parish is a confident tradition that these seven children were all baptized at the font in this church, and that they were brought thither in a kind of chardger, which was dedicated to this church, and hung on two nailes, which are to be seen there yet, neer the belfree on the south side. Some old men are yet living that doe remember the chardger. This tradition is entred into the Regis ter-booke there, from whence I have taken this narrative," 1659. See Hoare's Modern Wilts, p. 49. J. B.

The following is also from the same book:

"Dr. Win. Harvey, author of The Circulation of the Blood, told me that one Mr. Palmer's wife, in Kent, did beare a child every day for five daies together."

C. DE D.

"O Leoline," &c. (Vol. v., p. 78.).—If no one sends in better information, I beg to inform H. B. C. that I have had the lines he alludes to for many years in MS. as the composition of Aaron Hill. He was a dramatist, but I observe that the Cyclopædia says only two of his dramatic pieces are now remembered, Algira and Zara, both of them adaptations from Voltaire. He was born 1684, and died 1750. My verses differ slightly from the version of H. B. Č. "Let never man be bold enough to say,

Thus, and no farther, shall my footsteps stray. The first crime past compels us into more, And guilt grows fate, that was but choice before." HERMES. [O. P. W. has forwarded a similar reference to Aaron Hill.]

The Ballad on the Rising of the Vendee (Vol.iv., p. 473.).—It is by Smythe, the member for Canterbury, and was published in his Historic Fancies. R. D. H.

House at Welling (Vol. iv., p. 502.). - Your correspondent appears to have made a confusion between Welling in Kent and Welwyn in Herts. Of this latter place Young, the author of the Night Thoughts, was rector, and the house in which he resided is now standing. A. W. H.

Pharetram de Tutesbit (Vol. iv., p. 316.).— Pharetram de Tutesbit must be a quiver manufactured by a person of the name of Tutesbit. This indeed is conjecture, as I have not been able to find any allusion to the word; but it does not appear that there is any place of that name.

Ruffles, when worn (Vol. v., p. 12.).—These appendages to our ancient costume were originally termed handruffs. They may be traced in some of our early monumental effigies. The earliest written notice of them, that I remember, is in the following extract from an inventory of Henry VIII.'s apparel quoted by Strutt:

"One payer of sleves, passed over the arme with gold and silver, quilted with black silk, and ruffled at the hand with strawberry leaves and flowers of gold, embroidered with black silk."

In the reign of Elizabeth, the handruffs are seen pleated and edged with rich lace; and in the three succeeding reigns, they were generally worn of fine lawn or cambric. When the Hanoverian race ascended the English throne, many changes took place in the national costume; but the ruffle was retained, and continued during the century. Some of your readers may recollect the print of Garrick's Macbeth, with cocked hat of the last London cut, bag-wig, full court dress and ruffles! In 1762, the rage for large ruffles was beginning to decline. A writer in the London Chronicle for that year (p. 167.) says (speaking of the gentlemen's dress):

"Their cuffs cover entirely their wrists, and only the edge of their ruffles are to be seen; as if they lived in the slovenly days of Lycurgus, when every one was ashamed to show clean linen."

The French Revolution of 1789 very much influenced the English fashions in costume; the cocked-hat and ruffles were discarded to make room for the ugly “round hat" and "small cuffs" of the Parisian butchers.

It would be difficult to fix upon the period for the total disuse of any particular fashion. Fashions of a "hundred years ago" may still be seen in some of our country churches; and I should not be surprised to find ruffles among their number. EDWARD F. RIMBAULT. Allen of Rossull (Vol. v., p. 11.).—There seems some little doubt about the arms of Allen of Rossull. A MS. at Burton Constable, Yorkshire, gives the following as the arms of the family :-Allen, Rossall (not Rossull, though sometimes Rushall, Rossal, &c.): argent, a chevron engrailed azure, between three griffins' heads erased; on a chief of the second an anchor, or, between two bezants.

The windows of Ushaw College, Durham, however, frequently present a coat far different from this, surmounted by a cardinal's hat. The arms there are Argent, a cross gules for the college of Douay;-impaling for the founder, William Allen,

argent, three conies in pale sejant, sable. The first seems to have belonged to the family; the last-if assumed by the cardinal himself—seem singularly indicative of his peculiar propensity for endeavouring to undermine sound doctrine by his heretical works and acts. G. S. A.

Serjeants' Rings (Vol. v., pp. 59. 92. 110.).— The happiest motto which comes to my recollection is that adopted by the first serjeants who were called after the decision of the Court of Common Pleas in January, 1840, overturning the warrant issued by King William IV., which opened the court to all members of the bar. Five new serjeants were then called, who gave rings with this motto, in allusion to the restoration of their rights:

"Honor nomenque manebunt."

Is your correspondent E. N. W. right as to Serjeant Onslow's motto? As all the serjeants called at the same time have the same motto inscribed on the rings they respectively give, it is not likely, if others were joined in the same call with him, that a motto should have been adopted which applied only to one of the number. If indeed he happened to be called alone, it is possible he may have used it; but I am inclined to think E. N. W. has confounded the motto of the family with that of the serjeant. EDWARD Foss.

Clerical Members of Parliament (Vol. v., p. 11.). John Horne Tooke, the reformer, who was in priest's orders, having been presented to the borough of Old Sarum by Lord Camelford, in February, 1801, an act was passed (41 Geo. III. c. 73.) to exclude the clergy from parliament; but as it did not vacate the seat of any member then elected, Mr. Tooke remained in the house till the dissolution in June, 1802. In the course of the debate, the case of Mr. Edward Rushworth, member for Newport, in the Isle of Wight, in 1784, was referred to. He was in deacon's orders, and a petition presented against his return, but was allowed to retain his seat. He is supposed to have been one of the two ministers of the Church of England alluded to by Sir James Johnstone in his speech in the debate on the Test and Corporation Acts, 8th May, 1789, as then being members of the House.

W. S. S.

Cabal (Vol. iv., pp. 443. 507.).—The following extract from a curious book in my possession, entitled Theophania; or severall Modern Histories represented by way of Romance (see "N. & Q." Vol. i., p. 174.), shows a much earlier use of this word than that of Burnet's. The date of Theophania is 1655:

"He was at length taken prisoner, and, as a sure token of an entire victory, sent with a strong guard into Sicily; where Glaucus and Pausanias, fearing time might mitigate the queen's indignation, caused his process to

T. HENRY KERSLEY, B.A. Latin Verse on Franklin (Vol.iv., p. 443.; Vol. v., p. 17.). The line on Franklin

"Eripuit cœlo fulmen, sceptrumque tyrannis," was written by Turgot, Louis XVI.'s minister and controller-general of finance. This verse, however, so happily applied to the American philosopher and statesman's double title to renown, is merely the modification of one in the Anti-Lucretius of Cardinal Polignac, the 37th of the first book, "Eripuitque Jovi fulmen, Phœboque sagittas," which again had for its model that of Marcus Manilius, a poet of the Augustan age. It is the 104th of his Astronomicon, where he says of Epicurus (lib. v.), "Eripuitque Jovi fulmen, viresque Tonanti." This appears to be the original source of the phrase, so far as I could trace it. Turgot, though highly appreciated by his sovereign, and promoted to the prime ministry in consequence, was only suffered to hold the responsible situation for a short time, from August, 1774, to May, 1776, when he fell a sacrifice to court intrigues, which the weak king had not the energy to resist, while emphatically saying, "Il n'y a que Turgot et moi qui aimions le peuple."

This eminent statesman's advocacy of the freedom of commerce, state economy, and general liberty of the subject, exposed him not only to courtly but to popular hostility. The French were certainly ill prepared for such innovations on their policy or habits, nor, I may add, even now, notwithstanding the constantly alternating schemes of government, from despotic to constitutional, in the long interposed period, do they appear fully to appreciate, or anxious to introduce these desirable improvements.

J. R. (Cork.)

Job (Vol. v., p. 26.).—The Rev. T. R. BROWNE interprets one of the Persepolitan inscriptions as representing the coronation and titles of Job. As no previous commentator had supposed Job to be a Persian prince, and as (among other unexpected results) it would follow that the poem bearing his name was a translation into Hebrew by some unknown hand, I hastened at once to the Bodleian to examine the authorities on which MR. BROWNE bases his interpretation.

On one glance at the work cited (Kaempferi Amanitatum Exoticarum Fasciculi V.) it was plain enough that Kaempfer had made his transcription so carelessly, that barely one letter in a hundred was correct; and, on turning to Niebuhr's copy of the same inscription (plate xxiv. a.), and to Porter's (vol. i. plate xliv. p. 631.), my suspicions were amply confirmed. But the most sin

gular part was to come. Aided by the minute identifications which MR. BROWNE gives of the words which he translates, Aiub taij, I discovered that the reverend gentleman had mistaken two letters for two words. His whole theory, therefore, falls to the ground.

As some of your readers may like to know the real interpretation of this inscription, I give the translation of Rawlinson as amended from Westergaard's notes, and which is undoubtedly correct:

"The great God Ormazd, who has given this world, who has given that heaven, who has given mankind, who has given life to mankind; who has made Xerxes king, both the king of the people, and the law-giver of the people. I am Xerxes the king, the great king, the king of kings, the king of many-peopled countries, the supporter also of this great world, the son of King Darius the Achæmenian," &c.

RECHABITE.

Poniatowski Gems (Vol. v., pp. 30.65.).—I thank M-N for his note, but it does not at all afford the information I seek. My Query referred to the original sale in London of the gems. Lord Monson's collection, to which M-N refers, was, I believe, purchased by his lordship from a dealer who bought them at the original sale, the date of which I seck. A. O. O. D.

Sleck Stone, Meaning of (Vol. iii., p. 241.; I think twice, been spoken of in " N. & Q." as Vol. iv., p. 394.).-The expression sleck-stone has, equivalent to whet-stone: this is a mistake. The first word is possibly misprinted in the work in which it is found, but at all events the thing intended is a sleek-stone (Old Fr. Calendrine) an implement formerly used by calendrers; often, if not always, made of glass, and in shape much like a large mushroom it is used reversed, the stalk forming the handle. Those which I have

seen were about four inches in diameter, some more and some less. Sleek-stones are now, I believe, entirely superseded by machinery.

R. C. H.

Bishop Bridgeman (Vol. v., p. 80.).—The matricould MR. CLAY ascertain the year Bridgeman enculation registers of the University of Cambridge, tered (and this might be found by searching them), will give his age at that time, the Christian names of his parents, and their place of residence. I do not know whether it is the case at Cambridge, but at Oxford one has to pay half a guinea for an exrecords should be more accessible to the student tract from the archives. Surely these important in this respect.

CRANMORE.

Bow Bell (Vol. v., p. 28.).— In Eastward Hoe, by Ben Jonson, John Marston, and George Chapman, printed 1605, Girtred, the proud daughter of the citizen Touchstone (Act I. Sc. 1.), taunts her modest sister Mildred, who is endeavouring to

check her arrogant manner, with the scornful expression "Bow Bell!" evidently intending to reproach her as a Cockney. She afterwards asks her intended husband, Sir Petronel Flash, to carry her out of the scent of Newcastle coal and the hearing of Bow Bell. W. S. S.

Fees for Inoculation (Vol. iv., p. 231.). -For the information of R. W. B. I beg to send you the following extract from the vestry-book of this parish:

"22 Jan. 1772.

"It is further ordered that such of the poor persons belonging to this parish who like to be inoculated for the small-pox may be inoculated at the expence of this parish, not exceeding five shillings and threepence each person, provided it is done within six weeks of the date hereof. And that each person to be inoculated shall

first produce a certificate under the hands of one justice and one churchwarden to the inoculating surgeon, and that the parish shall not pay for any one inoculated without such certificate of the person belonging to Maidstone."

Age of Trees (Vol. v., p. 8.).- Living near the Forest of Dean, I wish to state that it is not known that any trees exist there which can possibly be of anything approaching to the age of Edward III.; that the word forbid savours of a reservation of timber for the use of the mines, if the privileges of the free-miners can really be carried back to that time. The intelligence in Pepys was derived from Sir John Winter, the person who bought the whole forest in perpetuity from Charles I., but was allowed by Charles II. only to make the most of it he could in his own time. Some trees may have survived the smash which he made, but they must either have been young, or worthless from age or decay. C. B.

Objective and Subjective (Vol. v., p. 11.).—I would beg to refer X. to the first of the five Sermons by W. H. Mill, D.D., preached before the University of Cambridge, in Lent, 1844. When he has carefully perused it, he will be enlightened as to the precise meaning of the terms objective and subjective; being made aware that there is one great object of faith, though, with some writers, the subject, man, may be made the most prominent.

X. will there find that what he styles "exoteric jargon" has, in the hands of so judicious a writer and so excellent a divine as Dr. Mill, been "translated into intelligible English." J. H. M.

Parish Registers (Vol. v., p. 36.).—I am sorry not to be able to agree with MR. CHADWICK in thinking "that no fee is legally payable for searching the register-books of baptisms and burials, nor even for making a copy," &c. It is quite certain that even parishioners have no right to inspect the parish books, except for ordinary parochial purposes. In the case of Rex v. Smallpiece, 2 Chitt. Rep. 288., Lord Tenterden said, "I know of no rule of law which requires the parish officers to show the books, in order to gratify the curiosity of gical or archæological inquirer" has in general no a private individual." Therefore the "genealoright to inspect, much less copy the registerbooks: consequently he must pay the fees demanded for being allowed to do so. J. G. Temple.

"'Tis Tuppence now," &c. (Vol. iv., pp. 314. 372.).—The lines quoted by FANNY I immediately recognised as Thomas Ingoldsby's. On the appearance of REMIGIUS' Query, I looked through the Ingoldsby Legends as the most likely place to find the lines in, but failed, in consequence of an alteration of the last stanza, which in my edition (the third, 1842) runs thus:

"I thought on Naseby, Marston Moor, on Worc'ster's 'crowning fight;'

When on mine ear a sound there fell, it chill'd me

with affright,

Chatterbox (Vol. iv., p. 344.).—I doubt whether your correspondent J. M. will succeed in limiting the term chatter-box to the female sex. His rendering buxom by womanly will hardly stand the test of criticism. In the old matrimonial service, as elsewhere, it originally signified obedient, compliant, and was equivalent to the German biegsam. It was applied indifferently to men and women. Thus, in Chaucer's Shipmanne's Tale They wolden that hir husbondes shulden be Hardy and wise and riche, and thereto free, And buxom to his wife, and fresh a-bed." in the Clerke's Tale, speaking of the vassals, "And they with humble heart ful buxomly, Kneeling upon hir knees ful reverently, Him thonken all."

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The peasantry in Cheshire, instead of chatterbox, say chatter-basket. E. A.