The chamberlain of Abingdon "inveniet cuilibet monacho pelliceum ante festum Omnium Sanctorum ...cucullam, et tunicam, crepidas et duo paria pedulium et ad Pascha sotulares corrigiatos [laced]. In amissione cultelli, pectinis, novacularum camerario incumbit restituere." Sotulares, zona, capitalia et saga were found by the sub-chamberlain (Chron. de Abendon, ii. App. iv. pp. 386-8). At a burial at Durham the barber put on the dead monk's feet socks and boots, and wound him in his cowl and habit.... and his blue bed was holden over his grave by four monks during his funeral (Rites, 45). The sagum of a dead monk was given to the guest house at Abingdon. Furryt-pane. "Coopertoria sint de albo vel nigro panno vel de russeto cum pellibus, agninis albis vel nigris vel pellibus murileginis [martens'] vel lupinis" (Const. Northampton, 1225, Reyner, u.s., 96). Murileginis aut vulpinis" (Prov. Stat., 1444, p. 122). 66 Caliga were leggings or buskins which could be detached from the shoes [pedules] and were worn at night. Subtalares, or sotulares, or calciamenta, are mentioned with their sandals (Gesta Abbat. S. Alb., iii. 383). Amicta was the amice or neck-cloth. An abbot wore the grey almuce or amys in winter only, with a lighter amys in summer (Chron. de Evesham, 296; Annales Amundesham, ii. 259, 319). MACKENZIE E. C. WALCOTT. tions in the N. T. that the various traditions arose that Peter's wife was Mary, mother of Mark (her feast is celebrated on the same day as that of Peter, Act. Sanct., June 29); that she was the daughter (sister?) of Aristobulus, and bore him a son (Mark) and daughter (Petronilla?) (Act. Sanct., June, t. v. p. 411); that Aristobulus was brother of Barnabas and one of the seventy disciples, Gr. Menol., iii. 17. The wife's name (which could hardly have been Latin) must surely have been known in the time of the great Alexandrian theosophist; indeed, it seems to have originally stood in his text (see above). If so, was it design or accident that caused it to vanish from "Clement's varied page"? The reason given by Lewin (Life of St. Paul, v. ii. p. 153) for the omission of Paul's sister's son's name from Acts xxiii. 16, i.e. the danger of publishing it, seems improbable. J. MACCARTHY. ST. DUBRICIUS (5th S. vii. 389.)-The following extract relating to the British saint Dyfrig or Dubricius, from "Llandaff Cathedral and its Prelates," written by me, and which appeared in the Pontypridd Magazine of last year, will furnish MR. HANCOCK with some particulars, but I believe additional information can be obtained from Rees's Welsh Saints : ST. PETER'S WIFE (5th S. vii. 107, 212.) of Pebiau, the son of Erb, King of Ergyng or Archen"S. Dubricius was the son of Ewrddyl, the daughter Clement of Alexandria says (Stromateis, iii.; Op., field, a tract of country comprehending a portion of t. i. p. 192, Ed. Migne):-" Peter and Philip had Herefordshire south-west of the river Wye, of which the children... and even Paul does not scruple in present ecclesiastical Deanery of Archenfield or Irchenone of his epistles (Philipp. iv. 3) to address his field constitutes a part. It is not known who was his wife," &c. In another place (Strom., vii.; Op., the Life of S. Dubricius' (Lectiones de Vita Sancti Dufather. In Liber Landavensis we have Readings from t. ii. p. 312):-"They say that blessed Peter, when brici), which intimate they were read in portions in he saw his wife led to death, addressing her public worship. The greater portion of the Readings by name, said, 'O remember the Lord!" (appears to be a collection of miracles and traditional Oνóμаτos TроσELπóvτa μéμvησo [Eusebius's read-sayings. They record his founding a college or school ing] & aurη Tou Kvρtov). Eusebius (Hist. Eccles., iii. 30; Op., t. ii. p. 102) and Nicephorus Callistus (H. E., ii. 44; Op., t. i. p. 211), professing to quote Clement, give both passages with slight variation. Peter's wife and daughter (in Jerome's copy, Adv. Jovian., i. 278) are mentioned in Clementine, Recognitions (vii. 25; Op., t. i. p. 1365). Dr. Lindsay (Kitto's Cycl. Bibl. Lit., 3rd ed., s.v. Peter), without naming his authority, says that her traditional name was Concordia or Perpetua. In 1 Peter v. 13 we read:-donaČETαι vμâs Ev Baßvλov σvvekλEKTý [his wife according to Alford, Bengel, and others] kai Mápkos o viós Pov (Mark the evangelist, called by Papias [Euseb.] the interpreter of Peter). In Acts xiii., after his escape from prison, Peter goes to "the house of Mary, the mother of Mark." In Col. iv. 10 the latter is called a kinsman (avetos) of Barnabas. In Rom. xvi. 10 the household of a certain Aristobulus is saluted. Barnabas and Mark were both of the Petrine party (Acts xiii. 13; xv. 36). It was probably from these indica tained 2,000 clergy for seven successive years in the MIDDLE TEMPLAR. ab Arthur gave Penaly, near Tenby, Pembrokeshire; ask for information about Madame de Warens Llandilo Fawr with the manors of Llandilo Villa and herself. For that let him consult the Confessions, Llandilo Patria, in Carmarthenshire, now held by the Right Hon. Earl Cawdor by lease from the Bishop of wherein Rousseau has immortalized the memory S. Davids; and Llandowror, on the banks of the river of his generous mistress-alas! immortalized also Taf, Carmarthenshire. According to Liber Landavensis, her follies and his own base ingratitude. S. Dubricius's consecration took place in A.D. 427 or 447, and the bishopric of Llandaff was bestowed upon him by Meurig ap Tewdrig, the King of Glamorgan. Whilst Archbishop of Caerleon he crowned the celebrated King Arthur at Cirencester. Overcome with age, he resigned his sees and episcopal offices, retiring to Bardsey Island, at the end of the promontory Lleyn, Carnarvonshire, where an abbey, dedicated to S. Mary, had been erected by the fugitive monks of Bangor. S. Dubricius attained a great age, but the date of his death cannot be In addition to the above I may state S. Dubricius Pontypridd, Glam. 66 CHARM" (5th S. vii. 207, 257, 278.)—As the use of this word in a previous note by me is quoted by ST. SWITHIN, I may say that I understood the meaning there given to "charm" to be a confusion of sounds, discordant singing, equivalent to a noise such as a number of children make." 66 over, In fact, the old schoolmistress of the little school in that same village, when the children became restless and talkative (a very frequent event), used to rap the cane sharply on her desk, and exclaim, 'Give do! what a charm you 're making!" This was in Huntingdonshire; but the use of the word charm," with this signification, I have heard in more than one county. Thus, in Rutland, on a certain occasion when several foxes had combined to make a midnight raid on a hen-roost and farmyard, a labourer who had to leave his bed and haste to the rescue described to me the medley of sounds that arose from the various denizens of the farmyard: "There were the foxes a-barking, and the cocks a-crowing, and the hens a-cackling, and the turkeys a-gobbling, and the geese a-hissing, and the ducks a-quacking, and the pigs a-squeaking, and the master a-hollering from the window, and firing off his gun to frighten the foxes. Oh, it were a charm!" Your correspondent (p. 278) quotes the phrase, the "charm" of the nightingale. "Mémoires de Madame de Warens, suivis de ceux de I have also heard of the "charm" of the owls, Claude Anet. Publiés par un C. D. M. P. Pour servir when several have commenced a simultaneous d'Apologie aux Confessions de J. J. Rousseau....A Cham-hooting. In fact, whenever I have heard the word béry. 1786." 8vo. No publisher's or printer's name. My copy is bound up with books v. and vi. of the Confessions (Geneva edition of 1782), and I purchased it at a Strand bookstall some two years ago for the modest sum of eighteenpence. Does the work possess any authenticity, or is it purely the offspring of Doppet's imagination? The "editor" by no means disarms our natural suspicions by his carefully guarded language on this important point. He ingenuously admits that, comparing the memoirs with Rousseau, " perhaps the former will be deemed supposititious"; but, instead of advancing any proofs in support of their genuineness, he merely adds : DOPPET'S "MÉMOIRES DE MADAME DE WARENS" (5th S. vii. 309.)-I possess a copy of this work which I venture to bibliographically describe : "Aussi croirions-nous que ce seroit perdre beaucoup de tems, que de faire une longue dissertation pour appuyer l'authenticité des titres que nous allons mettre au jour, peut-être même les affoibliroit-on, en travaillant à les étayer par tous les moyens que la vérité, unie à la saine logique, peuvent suggérer."-P. xv of preface. The account of the custody from which the memoirs are said to have come (p. xvii) is accordingly extremely meagre and unsatisfactory. Surely we are not to understand MR. PAGET to used by country people, it has always had reference to a "chorus," and not to the efforts of a single throat. CUTHBERT BEDE. TINTORETTO'S DAUGHTER (5th S. vii. 308.)Tintoretto's deep love for his only daughter, Maria, or, as she was called, Marietta Tintoretta, is not the least interesting fact about him which has come down to us. He loved her doubly, as a daughter and as an artist of the first order; and when, in consequence of her remarkable talents, the Emperor, the King of Spain, and other foreign princes, invited her to come to their courts, he could not part with her, and to keep her near him, "gab sie einem reichen venetianischen Juwelier zur gattin. Vater und Gatte waren über ihren frühen Tod untröstlich" (Fuessli, Algem. Künst., ii. 1316). She was born at Venice in 1560, and died at the age of thirty in 1590. Her father survived her, sorrowing, only four years. What little is known of her history is full of interest. Her talents were very remarkable; and her love for her father, old Giacopo Robusti, the 66 son of the dyer," was as great as the love which he had She died, aged thirty, in 1590. Her father died, aged eighty-two, in 1594. "Tintoretto and his Daughter" is the subject of a woodcut, from a drawing by (the late) T. Morten, in the National Magazine, vol. vi. p. 117 (1859). The design represents the daughter lying dead upon a couch, holding a long stem of lilies in her right hand. Her father, palette in hand, and with his easel before him, is closely studying his child's face. In the descriptive letter-press to the engraving it is stated that he was devotedly fond of Marietta, and that he "spent in her chamber the interval between her death and burial, engaged in painting her portrait. The act is somewhat at variance with modern notions; but, before condemning him, or affecting to shudder at his hardihood, we should recollect that he could not otherwise obtain so perfect a record of the existence of her he loved so well, and that painting, in the hands of one so accomplished, was but a method of relieving his grief. There could be nothing shocking to him in dwelling on the countenance of one so soon to be removed from his sight." CUTHBERT BEDE. persons as had not contributed or lent money to the Parliament (Husband, Orders, Ordinances, and Declarations, ii. 171). On September 20, 1643, he was made one of the committee of the associated counties "for the mutuall defence of each other against the Popish army in the North, under the command of the Marquisse of Newcastle" (ibid., 329). relief of the army in Ireland on September 1, He filled a similar post on the committee for the 1644 (ibid., 567). the committee for maintaining the forces under the And on February 15, 1644 [1645], he was on command of Sir Thomas Fairfax (ibid., 605). Sir Richard Berney, Baronet, and Thomas Berney were Justices of Peace for Norfolk in 1650 (Names of Justices... as they stand in Commission...this Michaelmas Terme, 1650, pp. 38, 39). Norfolk under the Assessment Act of 1656 Sir Richard was appointed a commissioner for (Scobell, Acts and Ordinances, ii. 411). It is evident from the above facts that, although there was some hesitation at first, Sir Richard almost at once took the side of the Parliament, and that he was trusted both by that assembly and by the Protector. I have not met with any notice of his serving in a military capacity, and think it is probable that he refrained from doing so. Bottesford Manor, Brigg. EDWARD PEACOCK. Marietta, the daughter of Jacopo Robusti ("Il Tintoretto"), was a very clever player on the lute and on the gravicembali, and attracted many musicians to her father's house to hear her play. Her promising career was, however, prematurely cut short. She died in 1590 at the age of thirty, leaving her aged parent for four years to mourn her loss. Desiring to possess a good portrait of CITY CHURCHES (5th S. vii. 360.)—A work on his daughter, Tintoretto, when it became certain the churches of London by George Godwin and that her life was ebbing away, transferred to John Britton was published in 1838, containing canvas the features of his gifted child as she lay descriptions of seventy-five churches, illustrated dying. It is to this sad incident the pictures by one hundred and sixteen exterior and interior alluded to by MR. BOGUE refer. See an article in views, engravings and woodcuts; the former by Le the St. Paul's Magazine, vol. ix. p. 66 (1871), by Keux, of great beauty, it would be impossible to Mr. T. A. Trollope, entitled "Tintoretto at Home." equal at the present day. Illustrations of the In the previous volume of the same periodical Public Buildings of London, by John Britton and (vol. viii. p. 525) there is another article on Tinto- A. Pugin, published 1825, contains also a very exretto by the same author, entitled "The Thunder-cellent series of plans, elevations, and sections of bolt of Painting." F. A. EDWARDS. BERNEY FAMILY (5th S. vii. 329.)-John Cory, writing from Norwich, March 17, 1642 [1643], to Sir John Potts, says, "Sir Richard Berney sent to me last night, and showed and gave me the Colonel's note to testify he had paid him the 501." This money, Mr. Carlyle says, was a forced contribution levied upon Berney by the association of the county (Letters and Speeches of Oliver Cromwell, edit. 1857, i. 110). We cannot take this as evidence that Sir Richard was at this early period a Royalist, but it certainly indicates that he had not definitely taken the other side. A few weeks after, however, he seems to have done so, for by an Ordinance dated May 7, 1643, he is appointed one of the committee for Norfolk for taxing such churches and public buildings, some of which are volume on Wren's churches, which, of course, prenow destroyed. There is also Clayton's large folio serves illustrations to scale of all his chief works, some already destroyed. R. PHENE SPIERS, M.R.I.B.A. THE MAYPOLE (5th S. vii. 346.)— "There were several maypoles throughout the City (London), particularly one near the bottom of Catherine Street, Strand, which, rather oddly, became a support in its latter days for a large telescope at Wanstead, Essex, the property of the Royal Society."-Newcastle Weekly Chronicle, May 12, 1877. THOMAS NORTH. One branch of this Huguenot Refugee family fled into Italy, and subsequently wrote themselves Bevelaqua. ANOTHER WAG. FREEMASONS AND BEKTASHJEES (5th S. vii. 323, 398.)—There is not much to reply to in MR. JAMES'S communication. I should think it not at all unlikely that Prof. Vambéry, who is a Jew, does know something about the Bektashjees. What I have stated as to Freemasons having been adopted by the latter into their sect has not been contradicted by MR. JAMES, nor can be, for it is a fact. I observe the concluding question of MR. JAMES: I will remind him that the nonChristian character of the Freemasons does not depend upon the date when the first Jew was affiliated to them, but upon the incontrovertible fact that Jews, i.e. persons professing Judaism, can be admitted ex debito into the craft, and may remain therein without offence to their Semitic monotheism. H. C. C. As acting Grand Master I was engaged with the late Hon. J. Porter Brown, author of the History of the Dervishes, in examining the alleged connexion with Freemasonry, and we came to the conclusion there was no such connexion. I have seen no ground to alter this conclusion. As to Jews in Masonry, is H. C. C. aware that the name for Masonic lodges all over Europe, down to the middle of the last century, was St. John's Masonry, and that the German Masons to this day resist the introduction of Jews, even if they have been initiated in other countries? It would be well on this subject if some attention were paid, according to MR. SKEAT'S practice for English etymology, to facts, and not to imagination, until we have got the facts. HYDE CLARKE. DE BURES (5th S. vii. 309, 399.)-References will be found to this family in Manning and Bray's History of Surrey, vol. i. pp. xii, 93, 651; vol. ii. p. 584; vol. iii. p. 332. John de Bures, temp. | Hen. III., held one knight's fee in Bergh in Banstead (Testa de Nevill). John de Bures, his son or descendant, died in 1282 (Escaet, 4 Ed. I. No. 19), leaving a son John his heir, then twentythree years old. He died in 1333 (Escaet, 6 Ed. III. No. 174), and was succeeded by his son John, then aged forty, who died February 16, 1346 (Escaet, Mar. 22, 19 Ed. III. No. 174). He married Joan, daughter and co-heir with her sister Margaret, the wife of John de Norton, of Robert de Dol, Lord of Losely Manor, in the county of Surrey. She died in 1372 (Escaet, 45 Ed. III. No. 4), aged seventyfive. They left issue two sons, William de Bures, heir to his mother, and Sir John de Bures, Knt., who died 43 Ed. III., aged fifty-two. He was succeeded by John de Bures, citizen and fishmonger of London, who died in 1384, leaving John his son and heir. In 1410 the estate at Banstead was sold to his creditors under a writ of elegit, and the name from that time disappears, I believe, from the roll of Surrey gentry. G. L. G. HERALDIC BOOK-PLATES (5th S. vi. 465, 469; vii. 36, 76, 233.)—I have a large collection of choice and curious book-plates, extending over four folio volumes, which I am desirous of making as complete as I can, and shall be greatly obliged to any gentlemen who will forward me their book-plates for insertion. I shall be glad of the opportunity of making exchanges of duplicates or of purchasing any old plates. HENRY PECKITT. Carlton Husthwaite, Thirsk. BILLERICAY (5th S. vii. 28, 212.)-I have to thank DR. CHARNOCK for his reply to my query as to the origin of the name of this ancient town. I have an extract from Pipe Roll, 6 Hen. IV., mentioning the beheading at Billerica (Essex) of one Thomas Ledere, traitor to the king." In the accounts of expenses incurred in the reparation of Hadleigh Castle during the reign of Edward III. entries frequently occur of sums paid for the carriage of materials from Billeryke. In the grant of its chantry chapel, made by Edward VI. in 1551, to Walter Farre and Ralph Standysshe (not to Tyrell, as stated in Morant), the name is again spelt Billerica. A Welshman has told me that it could be interpreted as "the fort on the hill." Upon turning over the pages of a Welsh dictionary I find bela, to war, ca, a keep, a hold. The town stands very high, and at a very short distance from it are the remains of a small Roman camp. J. A. SPARVEL-BAYLY. "CAT-GALLAS" (5th S. vii. 148, 237.)—This I imagine to be a corruption of cats'-gallows," or more usually called "cats'-cradles," a game which children used frequently to play, with stretched string passed from the hands of one to another. The game is also called in some parts of England scratch cradles," derived most probably from the archaic name of the manger, the "cratch." The excellent Bishop Lancelot Andrewes seems to have an allusion to the game in one of his sermons, On the Nativitie. The text is Luke ii. 12-13 :— "Et hoc erit vobis signum, &c. And this shall be a Signe unto you: yee shall finde the Childe swadled, and laid in a cratch. And straightway there was with the Angell a multitude of heavenly souldiers, praising God, and saying, Glorie be to God on high," &c. The allusion is : "We may well begin with Christ in the Cratch: We must end with Christ on the Crosse. The Cratche is a Signe of the Crosse. They that write de re rustica describe the forme of making a Cratche Crosse- Wise. The Scandal of the Cratch is a good preparative to the Scandal of the Crosse." Sermon xii., edition 1635, London, printed by Richard Badger, folio. In the north of England I have heard the rack called the "cratch," but do not remember the term being applied to the manger. JOHN PICKFORD, M.A. Newbourne Rectory, Woodbridge. MISUSE OF WORDS (5th S. vi. 406, 487, 543; vii. 149, 272.)-5. The meaning of regalia is so obvious that it seems absurd to remind educated persons of it; and yet the word has of late become strangely misused. So insensibly do people pick up and adopt what they read in the newspapers that even a leading M.P., a man of high education, speaking of Temperance processions, said it was "useless for the members to be walking about in regalia." Of course the word means royal adornments, and nothing else; but whenever a meeting of Teetotallers or Oddfellows takes place, the newspapers describe them as "wearing regalia." The writers mean "insignia." They might say decorations or ornaments, if they would condescend to use such plain words. J. DIXON. "RODNEYS" (5th S. vii. 168, 254.)-In this locality the term is used colloquially to indicate anything of inferior quality; for instance, "He wore a rodney hat," or "They are a rodney lot." J. H. BURTON. Ashton-under-Lyne. before his death, Mr. Disraeli had placed him on BALLAD LITERATURE (5th S. vii. 387.)-The second of the three ballads about which MR. RANKING inquires has lately been quoted in the columns of the Ipswich Journal, in which there appear every week a number of interesting "Suffolk Notes and Queries." One of the versions of the ballad in question-contributed by a correspondent, who says, "This is the best I can recall to memory, after more than seventy years”—runs as follows: "How cold the wind do blow, dear love, I never had but one true love, In the green wood he was slain. I would do as much for my own true love I would sit and mourn all on his grave 'It is not your gold I want, dear love, Your lips are as cold as clay, dear love, I am afraid, my pretty, pretty maid, W. R. S. R. "EXPERTO CREDE ROBERTO" (5th S. vii. 408.) -This "familiar proverb " will be found quoted in Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy, the anatomist, whose Christian name was Robert, using the locution in direct allusion to his own expertness. I will not rob students of the pleasure and edification of hunting through the beloved Burton by pointing out the page in which the proverb is quoted. GEORGE AUGUSTUS SALA. [Is not the original "Robert" to be found in Virgil's Diomede, who, having had more than enough of fighting with Æneas, declined the invitation of Venulus to meet his old antagonist, with the remark, savouring of sore reminiscence The word "rodney" is commonly used in Staffordshire to express an idle, loafing fellow. To "rodney" about is to hang about in an idle, desultory fashion. The principal characteristic of a "rodney" is that he hates work with enthusiasm. I have not an idea of the origin of the phrase or its derivation. J. PENDEREL-BRODHURST. Wolverhampton. THOMAS MILLER (5th S. vii. 169, 277.)-Introduction to his Anatomy of Melancholy.”] addition to what has already appeared in "N. & Q.," a short but interesting biography of this writer, up to the time of his leaving Nottingham to reside in London, will be found in Wylie's Old and New Nottingham, 1853. "Stetimus tela aspera contra, Contulimusque manus: experto credite quantus Mr. H. T. Riley (Dictionary of Latin and Greek QuotaIn clypeum assurgat, quo turbine torqueat hastam "? tions, &c.) says of "Experto crede Roberto " :-" A proverb commonly used in the Middle Ages, but its origin does not appear to be known. Burton uses it in the In I am under the impression that, a short time BEATRICE CENCI (5th S. vii. 188, 236.)—The review of Mr. Whiteside's work on Italy in the Nineteenth Century, contrasted with its Past Condition, referred to by K. H. B., appeared in the Quarterly, September, 1848, not in 1864, as stated. |