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"Hark! the Herald Angels sing."

I believe it to be the composition of the Rev. Charles Wesley, the younger brother of the celebrated John Wesley: he was born in 1708, and died in 1788. He was the author of many of the hymns in his brother's collection, which are distinguished for their elegance and simplicity. I am not able to find out, for certain, whether he had another name; if he had, it was probably the occasion of the initials (J. C. W.) your correspondent mentions. J. K. R. W.

Sir Jeffery Wyattville.-Sir Jeffery Wyattville, respecting whom "J.P." inquires (No. 14. p. 215.), was knighted at Windsor Castle, Dec. 9, 1828, on the king entering into possession after the ReS. G.

storation.

[To which may be added, on the information of our valued correspondent "C.," "that it was about 1824 that Mr. Wyatt, being appointed by George IV. to conduct the improvements at Windsor Castle, had the absurd ambition of distinguishing himself from the other architects of his name by changing it into Wyatt

ville. This produced the following epigram in, I think, the Morning Chronicle:

"Let GEORGE, whose restlessness leaves nothing quiet, Change, if he will, the good old name of Wyatt; But let us hope that their united skill, May not make Windsor Castle- Wyattville !' "] "Peruse."-In reply to the question of "H. W." (No. 14. p. 215.), although from want of minute reference I have been unable to find, in the original edition the quotation from Frith's works, I beg leave to suggest that the word "Peruse" is a misprint, and that the true reading is "Pervise." To this day the first examination at Oxford commonly called the "Little-Go," is "Responsiones in Parviso." It must not, however, be supposed that "Pervise," or "Parvise," is derived from the Latin "Parvus;" the origin, according to Spelman and succeeding etymologists, is the French "Le Parvis," a church porch.

In London the Parvis was frequented by serjeants at law see Chaucer, Prol. Cant. Tales. There is a difference of opinion where it was situated: see Tyrwhitt's Gloss. The student in ecclesiastical history may compare Leo Allatius de Templis Græcorum, p. 44. T. J.

Autograph Mottoes of Richard Duke of Gloucester and Harry Duke of Buckingham.-(No. 9. p. 138.) There can be no doubt that "Mr. NiCOLS" is somewhat wrong in his interpretation of the Duke of Buckingham's Motto. It is evident that both mottoes are to be read continuously, and that "souene" is the third person singular of a

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Boduc.-Your correspondent "P." (No. 12. p. 185.) seems to consider the "prevailing opinion," that Boduc or Boduoc on the British coin Boadicea, to be merely a "pleasing vision," over must be intended for our magnanimous Queen remark, that the name Budic (a mere difference which he is "sorry to cast a cloud." Yet his own in spelling) is often found among families of the Welsh in Brittany, and that the name was once common in England, serves only to confirm the common opinion that Boduoc on the coins was intended as the name of the British Queen.

Dio expressly writes her name in Greek Boudouica, which approaches nearly to Budic. In Cornwall we still find Budock, the name of a parish and of a saint. In Oxford there was a church formerly called from St. Budoc, long since destroyed. Leland mentions a Mr. Budok, and his manor place, and S. Budok Church. His opinion was, that "this Budocus was an Irisch man, and cam into Cornewalle, and ther dwellid." Whether there was a Regulus of Britain of this name, is not material. I am not prepared to cast a cloud over it, if it should be found. Our motto should be, “ex fumo dare lucem,” &c. ANTINEPHELEGESITA.

Oxford.

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allow me to correct an oversight in your reply to Annus Trabeationis. I am sure that you will a query of "G. P.," in No. 7. p. 105. You have attributed to Du Cange a sentence in the Benedictine addition to his explanation of the term Trabeatio. (Glossar. tom. vi. col. 1158. Venet. 1740.) This word certainly signifies the Incarnation of Christ, and not his Crucifixion. Besides the occurrence of "trabea carnis indutus," at the commencement of a sermon on S. Stephen by S. Fulgentius Ruspensis, I have just now met with the expressions, "trabea carnis velatus," and "carnis trabea amicti," in a copy of the editio princeps of the Latin version of Damascen's books in defence of Image-worship, by Godefridus Tilmannus, fol. 30 b. 39 a, 4to. Paris, 1555. R. G.

MISCELLANIES.

Pursuits of Literature.-The lines upon the pursuits of literature, quoted by you at p. 212., remind me of some others, which I have heard ascribed to Mr. Grattan, and are as follows:

"'Tis well, Pursuits of Literature ! But who, and what is the pursuer, A Jesuit cursing Popery:

A railer preaching charity;

A reptile, nameless and unknown,

Sprung from the slime of Warburton,

Whose mingled learning, pride, and blundering, Make wise men stare, and set fools wondering."

X.

Doctor Dobbs and his Horse Nobbs.-I remem

ber having read somewhere of "Doctor Dobbs

and his horse Nobbs," but where I cannot now recall. I only remember one anecdote. The horse Nobbs was left, one cold night, outside a cottage, whilst the Doctor was within officiating as accoucheur (I believe); when he was ready to start, and came out, he found the horse apparently dead. The Doctor was miles from home, and, as the horse was dead, and the night dark, in place of walking home, he, with his host, dragged the horse into the kitchen, and skinned him, by way of passing the time profitably. But, lo! when the skinning was finished, the horse gave signs of returning animation. What was to be done? Doctor Dobbs, fertile in resources, got sheepskins and sewed them on Nobbs and completely clothed him therein; and-mirabile dictu!-the skins became attached to the flesh, Nobbs recovered, and from thenceforward carried a woolly coat duly shorn every summer, to the profit of Doctor Dobbs, and to the wonder and admiration of the neighbourhood.

I have also read somewhere that Coleridge told the story of "Doctor Dobbs and his horse Nobbs" to Southey at Oxford. J. M. B.

Dr. Dobbs and his Horse Nobbs.-Although of small moment, it is, perhaps, worth recording, that a Doctor Daniel Dove, of Doncaster, and his horse Nobbs, form the subjects of a paper in "The Nonpareil, or the Quintessence of Wit and Humour," published in 1757, and which, there can be little doubt, was the source whence Southey adopted, without alteration, the names so well known to all readers of the Doctor.

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St. Evona's Choice.-To your citation of Ben Jonson's exceptional case of the Justice Randall as a lawyer an honest man," in justice add the name of the learned and elegant author of Eunomus; for Mr. Wynne himself tells the story of St. Evona's choice (Dialogue II. p. 62. 3rd ed. Dublin, 1791), giving his authority in the following note:

"The story here dressed up is told in substance in a small book published in 1691, called a Description of the Netherlands, p. 58."

In strict law, Sir, the profession may in courts of Momus be held bound by the act of the respectable but unlucky St. Evona; but in equity, let me respectfully claim release, for Evona was a churchman.

A TEMPLAR.

[We gladly insert our correspondent's "claim to release," but doubt whether he can establish it; inasmuch as St. Ivo or Evona, canonized on account of his great rectitude and profound knowledge both of civil and canon law, was both lawyer and churchman, like the CLERICUS SO recently discussed in our columns; and clearly sought for and obtained his patron saint in his legal character.]

Muffins and Crumpets, &c. Not being quite satisfied with the etymology of "muffin," in p. 205, though brought by Urquhart from Phoenicia and the pillars of Hercules, I am desirous of seeking additional illustration. Some fancy that "coffee was known to Athenæus, and that he saw it clearly in the "black broth" of the Lacedæmonian youth. In the same agreeable manner

we are referred to that instructive and entertaining writer for the corresponding luxury of "muffins." Maphula, we are told, was one of those kinds of bread named as such by Athenæus; that is to say, 66 a cake baked on a hearth or griddle." If we need go so far, why not fetch our muffins from Memphis, which is Môph in Hebrew? (See Hose ix. 6.) It is, perhaps, mou-pain, in old French, soft bread, easily converted into mouffin. So "crumpet may be a corruption of crumpâte, a paste made of fine flour, slightly baked. The only difficulty would then be in the

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"I am, til God me better minde sende,
At Dulcarnon, right at my witt'is ende.
Quod Pandarus ye nece, wol ye here,
Dulcarnon clepid is fleming * of wretches."

This passage of Troilus and Creseide is quoted in the life of Sir Thomas More, given in Wordsworth's Ecclesiastical Biography. More's daughter said to him, when he was in prison, "Father, I can no further goe; I am come, as Chaucer said of Cressid Dulcarnon, to my witt's end."

Has this passage been satisfactorily explained since Tyrwhitt's time? The epithet "Dulcarnon" is mentioned in a note to the translation of Richard de Bury's Philobiblon, London, 1832. I give the note in full. It is in reference to the word "Ellefuga":

"This word was a pons asinorum to some good Grecians, but that is probably its meaning; at least making it the name of a problem gets over all difficulty. The allusion is to the flight of Helle, who turned giddy in taking a flying leap, mounted on a ram, and fell into the sea; -so a weak head fails in crossing the pons. The problem was invented by Pythagoras, and it hath been called by barbarous writers of the latter time Dulcarnon.'- Billingsley. This name may have been invented after our author's time. Query dоλкaрηνoν.”

whilst Barnaby is represented as the supporter of orthodoxy.

Again, in the same year was published Durfey's comedy," Sir Barnaby Whigg," the union of the two names indicating that the knight's opinions were entirely regulated by his interest. Q. D.

P. S. The pamphlet above alluded to affords another instance of the use of the word "Factotum," at page 41, " before the Pope had a great house there, and became Dominus Factotum, dominus Deus noster Papa."

Barnacles.-In Speculum Mundi, or a Glass representing the Face of the World, by John Swan, M. A., 4th edit., 1670, is the following mention of the Barnacle goose (pp. 243, 244.) : —

"In the north parts of Scotland, and in the places adjacent, called Orchades, are certain trees found, whereon there groweth a certain kind of shell-fish, of a white colour, but somewhat tending to a russet; For in wherein are contained little living creatures. time of maturity the shells do open, and out of them by little and little grow those living creatures; which falling into the water when they drop out of their shells, do become fowls, such as we call Barnacles or Brant Geese; but the other that fall upon the land, perish and come to nothing."

The author then quotes the passage from Gerard where mention is made of the Barnacle.

Ancient Alms-Dishes.

HENRY KERSLEY.

I have one of these dishes diameter, 1 foot 4 inches, and its height 1 inch. The centre is plain, without any device, and separated from the circle of inscription by a bold embossed pattern.

The inscription is Der infrid gehwart, in raised (not engraved) capital letters, 1 inch long, repeated three times in the circle. Mine is a handsome dish of mixed metal; yielding, when struck, sense, it will help to explain the passage in the of leaves, &c. engraved on the broad margin, but a fine sound like that of a gong. It has devices

If we take the word "Dulcarnon" in this

Troilus and Creseide.

E. M. B.

Bishop Barnaby.-The origin of the term "Bishop Barnaby," as applied to the Lady-bird, is still unexplained.

I wish to observe, as having some possible connexion with the subject, that the word “Barnaby" in the seventeenth century appears to have had a particular political signification.

For instance, I send you a pamphlet (which you are welcome to, if you will accept of it) called "The Head of Nile, or the Turnings and Windings of the Factious since Sixty, in a dialogue between Whigg and Barnaby," London, 1681. In this dialogue Whigg, as might be expected, is the exponent of all manner of abominable opinions,

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no date.

I have seen another such dish, in the collection of the late William Hooper, Esq., of Ross, part of which (and I think the whole of the under side) had been enamelled, as part of the enamel still adhered to it. In the centre was engraved the temptation in Eden; but it was without legend or date. P. H. F.

Why the American Aborigines are called Indians. - I have often wondered how the aborigines of America came to be called Indians; and for a considerable time I presumed it to be a popular appellation arising from their dark colour. Lately, however, I fell in with a copy of Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, Antwerp, 1583, by Abraham Ortelius, geographer to the king; and, in the map entitled Typus Orbis Terrarum, I find America called America sive India Nova. How it came to get

the name of India Nova is of course another ques-distinctive character, Apostolic, Gnostic, &c., as tion, and one which at present I cannot answer.

NORTHMAN.

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