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“ Hardwick's recently published History of the Articles will furnish a reply to this Query:—
"He (Laud) was accused of forging the contested clause in Art. XX. And after appealing to four printed copies of the Articles, one of them as early as 1563, and all containing the passage which the Puritans disliked, he added, 'I shall make it yet plainer: for it is not fit concerning an Article of Religion, and an Article of such consequence for the order, truth, and peace of the Church, you should rely upon my copies, be they never so many or never so ancient. ”

“ If this prove so, the imputation cast upon Miss Barber will revert upon her accuser, and will demand the most ample apology.
I do not know Miss Barber; her writings I have long admired; and having been the means of drawing down upon her such an accusation, I am not disposed to let the inquiry terminate here. Nor can I believe the Editor of "NOTES AND QUERIES" will desire that either a literary error or a groundless slander should descend to posterity in his pages. ”

“ It is, however, less difficult to imagine the reality of such an origin, than to account for the strange degeneracy exhibited in the modern aspect of the custom. 'Swearing on the horns' was an observance at all events more than a century old; for a song which embodied a close paraphrase of the oath, according to the best authorised version yet extant, was introduced in a London pantomime at the Haymarket Theatre in the year 1742. ”

“ ERZA cannot entertain a higher respect than I do for the memory of Lady Flora Hastings; but I am sure no member of her family would countenance any attempt to exalt her reputation at the expense of another's; and I fear ERZA, however unintentionally, has fallen into this error. The stanzas she attributed to Lady Flora, as L. H. K. stated (Vol. iii., p. 522.) , were published as Miss M. A. S. Barber's in The Christian Lady's Magazine for September, 1839, only two months after Lady Flora's death. ”

“ Wood, at the close of his article on Hugh Holland the poet, which is chiefly derived from the Worthies of Fuller, mentions one Hugh Holland as admitted B.A. in 1570, and another Hugh Holland as matriculated at Baliol college in 1582, aged twenty-four; with others of that surname. He adds, "but whether any of them were authors, I cannot yet tell, or whether the last was the same with the poet. Qu." Now, with regard to the first and second articles, our querist omits the sentence which proves the inapplicability of his quotations! ”

“ About four years ago, an English Friend waited on me, to request me to enter my name as a subscriber to an edition of the Bible, which a Committee of Friends were intending to publish. The printed prospectus stated that the work was designed to be one suited for daily perusal in Friends' families; that from it would be carefully excluded every passage that was indelicate, and unfit for reading aloud; and also those portions which might be called dangerous, which it was possible the unlearned and unstable might wrest to their own destruction. ”

“ Our correspondent, W. S. GIBSON, Esq., in his Prize Essay on the History and Antiquities of Highgate, has preserved some curious notices of this burlesque oath. He says, "All attempts to trace the once prevalent, but now obsolete, custom of 'swearing at Highgate' to any really probable source have proved unavailing, and the custom has fallen into disuse. The early identity of the site of the present hamlet with the ancient forest, and the vicinity of Highgate to a park or chase, naturally suggests the possible connexion of these trophies with huntsmen and their horns ”

“ Curious Monumental Inscription: "Quos Anguis tristi."
—Have any of your readers seen Latin verses constructed in the following curious manner? I copied these many years ago from an old magazine:—
Quos anguis tristi diro cum vulnere stravit,
Hos sanguis Christi miro tum munere lavit."
J. O. B.
[The inscription quoted by our correspondent has been preserved by Stow, in his Survey of London, who, describing the monuments in the church of St. Anne in the Willows, says (p. 115. ed. 1842) , "John Herenden, mercer, esquire, 1572; these verses on an old stone."] ”

“ That is to say, "They labour at the oar till night is wearied out, and day also is obliged to give place in its turn; they master one by one the long serpentine bends of the river, and, though covered and inclosed by the varied foliage above them, they cut their way through the opposing woods, which lie, as it were, in their path in the shadowy surface of the clear, still water."
The word placido is surely sufficient to prevent any one falling into the common-place interpretation alluded to by your correspondent as the one "usually given." ”

“ The successful Treatises are to be the Property of the Society; and should the Council see fit, they will cause the same to be printed and published, awarding to the author the net amount of any profit which may arise from the publication after the payment of the expenses. ”

“ Francis, does not seem clear. At all events this chapel became early sanctified as the scene of the ecstasies and visions of the saint; here also S. Clara made her profession. Particular indulgences were granted to those who visited it for confession and repentance on the fifth of August and it became a celebrated place of pilgrimage in the fourteenth century. Mr. Ford tells us, that in Spain the term Porzioncula is applied generally to distinguish the chapel or sanctuary dedicated to St. Francis within the Franciscan churches. ”

“ I feel much obliged for the information afforded by your Dutch correspondent. When I sent you my Query on the subject more than a year ago, I wrote principally from memory; but as I have now the work in question lying beside me as I write, and as it seems to be rarer and less known than I had imagined, you will perhaps find place for a more minute description of it.
The Vine of St. Francis is a folio volume, containing 418 numbered leaves, a "Prologhe" of one leaf (next to the title-page) , and a "Tafel vā dit boeck" at the end, of five leaves and a half unnumbered. ”

“ The immediately preceding words, "variisque teguntur arboribus," have been pronounced by a very learned critic (one who has often deserved well of Virgil) to be idle, otiosa. (See Wagner ad Æn. i. 678.) And his opinion has been sanctioned by the usually judicious Forbiger. But they are not idle; on the contrary, they are necessary to convey the idea that the Æneadæ passed up the river under the shade of the trees; and so are supplemental to the statement contained in the words cited by your correspondent, which inform us only that they went up the river. ”

“ What more have your friends done? The principle I went upon was to make my notes as short as possible; and after pages on pages have been employed in your miscellany, it seems, in my humble judgment, that the case is not one jot altered. Esile may still either mean vinegar (eyesel) or the river Eisell.
J. PAYNE COLLIER.
SWEARING ON THE HORNS AT HIGHGATE.
Can any of your readers give a satisfactory explanation of what Lord Byron, in the LXXth stanza of the first canto of Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, calls the worship of the solemn horn? ”

“ Indeed the stanzas bear internal evidence of being written after Lady Flora's death, and founded on the account given by Charlotte Elizabeth in the preceding number. If, however, ERZA still persists in attributing them to Lady Flora Hastings, she is in duty bound to give her authority, and not bring such a heavy accusation against Miss Barber on the bare assertion of an anonymous correspondent. If Miss Barber really composed the stanzas, as I believe she did, she was doubtless actuated with a desire to honour the memory and character of Lady Flora ”

“ Moore, in his edition of Byron's Works, has the following note on this passage:—"Lord Byron alludes to a ridiculous custom which formerly prevailed at the public-houses in Highgate, of administering a burlesque oath to all travellers of the middling rank who stopped there. The party was sworn on a pair of horns, fastened, 'never to kiss the maid when he could kiss the mistress; never to eat brown bread when he could get white ”

“ HUGH HOLLAND AND HIS WORKS.
(Vol. iii. p. 427.; Vol. iv., p. 62.)
The querist on Hugh Holland and his works, must be content with a reply of unvarnished brevity.
1. "Where are these lines taken from, and what do they mean?"—The lines are from the Cypress garland of Hugh Holland, 1625. 4to. The meaning is obvious. I assume that Holland may be trusted as to his own age, to which Wood gives no clue. ”

“ In the Act 13th of Elizabeth, anno 1571, confirming the Thirty-nine Articles of the Church of England, these Articles are not engrossed, but referred to as comprised in a printed book, intitled 'Articles agreed to by the whole Clergy in Convocation holden at London, 1562.' The forged clause is, 'The Church has power to decree Rites and Ceremonies, and authority in Controversies of Faith.' That clause is not in the Articles referred to ”

“ In Aberdeenshire there is a considerable number of these obelisks, which, either from the more primitive state of the people, or the hardness of the granite, are much less elaborate than those in Angus. None, however, can exceed the obelisks in Easter Ross for beauty of execution. ”

“ I have seen the first volume in large folio; the type and paper are beautiful, the capital letters very fine. It is stated in the preface to be a translation from the Latin of Rudimentum Noviciorum, with the addition of the French Chronicles, and made at the instance of André de la Haye, Seigneur de Chaumot, Paymaster of Sens. It is printed at Paris in the month of July, 1448, by Pierre le Rouge. In how many volumes is the work comprised? Is it very scarce? ”

“ Surely if the author of Childe Harold were indebted to any ancient poet for some ideas embodied in the lines cited, it was to Lucretius and not to Ovid that he should have owned the obligation.
A BORDERER.
Minor Notes. On the Word "raised" as used by the Americans.
—An American, in answer to an inquiry as to the place of his birth, says, "I was raised in New York," &c. Was it ever an English phrase? And if so, by what English writer of celebrity was it ever used? Dr. Franklin, in a letter to John Alleyne, Esq., Aug. 9, 1768, says:
"By these early marriages we are blest with more children ”

“ A contentious man wil never lacke wordes. 2. A Judge must walke with feete of lead. 3. An ignorante Judge was never indifferente. 4. A simple eie is soone beguiled. 5. By a smal draughte of sea-water, though maiste judge the verdure of the whole. 6. Error can not be defended, but by error. 7. Evils must be cured by theire contraries. 8. He is very doumbe, and can speak but little, that cannot speake ill. 9. He that cannot judge Golde by sounde, or in sight, yet may trie it by the poise. 10. Il wil is ever plentiful of il woordes. ”

“ Southwark.
[The name of Exempts or Exons is manifestly borrowed from that of the officers in the old French Garde du Corps, who were styled in their commissions Capitaines Exempts des Gardes du Corps. Richelet describes the Exempt as the officer who commanded in the absence of the Lieutenant or Ensign, and who had charge of the night watch. In both cases, the duties of the English and French officers are completely parallel.] ”

“ That feeling to express, or to improve,
The gods become as mortals, and man's fate
Has moments like their brightest ——" &c. &c.
[4] To these beautiful and glowing lines the author has appended the following:
" Ὀφθαλμοὺς ἐστιᾶν."
"Atque oculos pascat uterque suos."
OVID. Amor. lib. iii.
It seems to me that the noble poet has condescended to avail himself of a little ruse in referring to this passage of Ovid. ”

“ A ship's place in harbour (borth) is her berth. A sailor's place in his ship is his berth.
S. S. S. (2)
Queries. JOHN A KENT AND JOHN A CUMBER.
I am much obliged to you, Mr. Editor, for giving additional circulation to my inquiry (through the medium of the Athenæum of the 19th ult.) regarding the two ancient popular wizards, John a Kent and John a Cumber. ”

“ Dryden and Oldham (Vol. iv. p. 36.) .
—Whether Oldham or Dryden had the prior claim to the thought, is a very interesting question, but very easily settled in favour of the much greater poet of the two, for—
"The dedication to the Earl of Orrery was addressed to him in the year 1664, when The Rival Ladies, which was Dryden's second play, was first printed."—Malone's Dryden, vol. i. part 2. p. 3.
Whereas the poem of Oldham states itself to have been written in July, 1678.
C. B.
Theobald Anguilbert and Michael Scott (Vol. iii., p. 518.) . ”

“ Under these tables of contents occur two stanzas, the first containing five lines, the second containing seven lines. They commence:—
"¶ O salige wÿngaert seer diep gheplant
Groyende in duechden van vruchten playsant," &c.
The preface to the Grote Legende informs us that it is Saint Bonaventura's life of Saint Francis, and mentions why it is called the Great Legend. This life ends at folio 47.
The preface to the Oude Legende, which next follows, states that it is "gathered from the [90] writings of his companions and the chronicles of the order of the Brothers Minor;" ”

“ In the fairest rose thou maiste soonest finde a canker. 12. It is a desperate cause, that with woordes and eloquence maie not be smoothed. 13. It is very course woulle that will take no colour. 14. Let Reason leade thee; let Authoritie move thee; let Truthe enforce thee. 15. Of an Impossibilitie yee maie conclude what yee liste. 16. Oftentimes he is hardiest man to speake, that hathe leaste to saie. ”

“ The Truthe wilbe hable evermore to beare it selfe. 24. To mainteine a fault knowne, is a double faulte. 25. To spende woordes without cause, is affliction of the sprite, and losse of time. 26. Vesselles never geve so great a sounde, as when they be emptie. 27. Untruthe cannot be shielded, but by untruthe. 28. Where the woulfe is broken in, it is beste for the poor sheepe to breake out. ”