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violation of duty. The word in the Prayer | Encyclopedia,' to an ordinance of 1 Book has been adopted from the primers that according to which were familiar to all in the sixteenth century, primers into which it was doubtless taken from the older English versions of St. Matthew vi. 64, e.g., Wyclif, 1382; Tyndale,

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his Grace perceiving now the great diversit the translations [of the Pater noster, etc.] willed them all to be taken up, and instea said Pater noster, Ave, Creed, etc., to be forth, willing all his loving subjects to learn use the same and straitly commanding all pars vicars and curates to read and teach the s to their parishioners.

them hath caused an uniform translation of

From this it appears that no change,
far as the fifth petition is concerned,
ever been made “in the Liturgy of
Church of England." In its present fo
it has been in the Prayer Book from
start.
JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT

“SAPIENS DOMINABITUR ASTRIS " (12 S. 509). This highly popular quotation is be seen in a book published in

In the first edition of the English Prayer Book, that of 1549, the Lord's Prayer corresponds exactly with the version in our present Liturgy, except that there is no year before the first issue of John Owe doxology. The names of the compilers, headed by that of Archbishop Cranmer, vancement of Learning' (1605), Book Epigrammata,' namely, in Bacon's may be seen at the beginning of Jeremy xxiii. 12. But it can be traced back to Taylor's Apology for Authorized and Set much earlier date. Forms of Liturgy.' Mullinger, in his His- to in Cornelius Agrippa's It is clearly refer tory of the University of Cambridge,' Scientiarum,' cap. xxxi., De Astrolo ii. 102, says that of the thirteen (Taylor judiciaria' :— names twelve) all but one had been educated at Cambridge.

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Mendacium mendacio tegunt, inquientes: Sa entem dominari astris, cum revera nec sapienti, nec sapiens astris, sed utrisque domine Deus.

But the "trespass' " form of the fifth petition occurs already in Tyndale's Newe Testamente,' 1526, where, in St. Matthew The words ar found a few years earlier vi., we have "And forgeve vs oure treas- Giovanni Nevizzano's pases, even as we forgeve them which | Lib. ii., sect. 97:treaspas vs."

The revisers of the New Testament were justified in their rendering "as we also have forgiven," since they were translating not apieμer but apýkaμev. See the text of St. Matthew vi. 12, in Tischendorf or Westcott and Hort. EDWARD BENSLY.

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Dicit tamen Bal. in c. j. ut lite pend. qu sapiens dominabitur astris.

I have not Baldus's commentaries by m but if the phrase is quoted by him this tak us back to the fourteenth century. T Latin saying, however, has a Greek origin Aldis Wright's note on the passage referre to above in the Advancement of Learning (ed. 1873) is :—

Mr. Ellis [=R. L. Ellis, co-editor of Baco Works] says, "This sentence is ascribed to Ptoler by Cognatus." Compare Albumazar,' i. 7.

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There is no need to rummage in Ptolem the margin of his Life of Jesus Chris Jeremy Taylor gives the words we want

Part III., sect. xiii. 24 :

The English version of the Paternoster, which appeared in 'A Necessary Doctrine and Erudition for any Christian Man,' commonly called The King's Book,' in 1543, and in the editions of The Book of Common Prayer' of 1549 and 1552, seems to have been based on Tyndale's translation of the New Testament, which was published in 1525. This English version is still used by English-speaking Roman Catholics, with two slight modifications, viz., “which art Taylor's annotator, C. P. Eden, vol. i has been modernized into who art" and p. 538, adds the reference, Carp. 5, p. 5 "in earth" into "on earth" (the fifth The edition which Eden used was th petition remaining unchanged). It owed its Nürnberg one, 1535, of Terpáßißlos an general acceptance by the nation, as Fr. Kapmós. Thurston has pointed out in the Catholic

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Δύναται ὁ ἐπιστήμων πολλὰς ἀποστρέψ eveрyeías Tŵv dσtépwv.—Ptolem.

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Latin version, is it certain that it is taken PRINCIPAL LONDON COFFEE-HOUSES AND from a Latin poem? Even if occurring in TAVERNS IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY.— such, may not the proverbial phrase have 1. Fountain (12 S. vi. 61; vii. 465; ix. 474).been independently couched in a metrical I beg to thank MR. MCMURRAY for his corform? One finds so many Latin mottoes, rections, which are noted. On turning to which are presumably not quotations, the revised MS. lists I find no entry such shaped like parts of hexameters. The as appeared at the second reference, having future tense dominabitur, apart from its reason apparently to doubt its accuracy. metrical convenience, could be explained as an example of the same tendency which we get in Love will find out a way," and which has perhaps been at work in producing the misquotation Magna est veritas et praevalebit," though some other possible reasons for this change were suggested at 11. S. x. 494.

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It is the same in Hebrew, in which many things used by men are denoted by nouns feminine. It was suggested in the earlier editions of Davidson's Grammar' that this might be "with reference to woman as the serviceable inferior sex." This explanation does not appear in the later editions, but while it stood, one of my pupils gallantly asked me whether the feminine gender might not rather denote affectionate intimacy." Cities, countries, &c., are often feminine, and may be regarded as mothers of their inhabitants.

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Names of things productive, unseen essences, &c., are feminine in Hebrew, as sun, earth, fire, soul. J. T. F.

Winterton, Lines.

2. Mourning Bush (12 S. vi. 61 ; ix. 474).—— I am likewise obliged to MR. MCMURRAY for pointing out that this house stood in Aldersgate; I discovered the mistake shortly after passing the proof.

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3. Pie Tavern (12 S. ix. 386, 499).-The authority for this entry is an item in a bookseller's catalogue offering a unique collection of 10 old Water-colour Drawings of Old Inns and Taverns in the North of London." The detailed list ends with the note, At the back of the drawing of The Cock is a letter, addressed to the gentleman for whom the drawings were made, dated from Hackney, 26th day of August, 1762,' and signed H. R." I delayed answering MR. POWER in the hope of being able to make an inquiry respecting the possible whereabouts of this collection, but it has been impracticable to give the necessary time. Power cares to send me his address I should be pleased to let him have the excerpt from the catalogue to institute his own inquiries.

If Mr.

4. Cannon Coffee-house (12 S. ix. 517).I thank MR. BLEACKLEY for his information; this house was 99 listed at 12 S. vi. 59.

5. Philazers' Coffee-house (12 S. vi. 126).—The sole authority I can find for this house is G. A. Sala's William Hogarth (1866, at p. 128), where says the author :

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I delight to fancy that the successful party [in the litigation] straightway adjourned to the Philazers' Coffee-house, in Old Palace Yard, and there, after a slight refection of hung beef and Burton ale, betook themselves to steady potations of Lisbon wine in magnums. What further authority is there for the I should be obliged existence of this house? for any assistance; having never met with it in any "coffee-house literature," I am wondering whether I have been the dupe of a gifted writer who possessed a remakably fertile imagination. J. PAUL DE CASTRO.

VICE-ADMIRAL SIR CHRISTOPHER MINGS (12 S. ix. 461, 513).-The funeral of Sir Christopher Mings forms the subject of a brilliant little sketch by Colonel Drury, A Deputation from the Lower Deck,'

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Oliver Cromwell had buried Admiral Blake with splendour in Westminster Abbey: Nelson, in a later age, was accorded a national funeral in St. Paul's. Let it be remembered to Charles II.'s lasting shame that he permitted the gallant Myngs to be borne to the tomb with as little ceremony as an obscure pauper.

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published in his 'Men-at-Arms' (Chapman VERLAINE AT STICKNEY (12 S. ix. 429, and Hall, Ltd., 1906). Colonel Drury | 472, 518).—MR. T. PERCY ARMSTRONG says: writes with justifiable warmth:"No doubt in a vagabond life like Verlaine's there is an opening for literary discovery." It may be news to many readers of Verlaine's works that the author's so-called vagabond life" has been very much exaggerated by all his biographers. Verlaine was a good actor on and off the literary Gustave Vapereau justly stage, and, as remarked, his great ambition was to be advertised and widely known as teenth-century Villon, without making any allowances for the distance of time. fact, Verlaine intended at one time to write biographical study" of the old French vagabond poet.

Neglected at his death, the gallant sailor
has long been forgotten.
England has
produced so many great men that some are
forgotten who would rank amongst the
honoured heroes of a nation not blessed
with the genius of the Anglo-Saxon, and
one is tempted to wish for a society which
would devote itself to rescuing great but
forgotten Englishmen from oblivion.
G. H. WHITE.

23, Weighton Road, Anerley.

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Paul Verlaine in reality heartily detested a long residence in a country district. The fields and meadows were all very well in the summer, he said, but the long winter months in such places were only suitable (12 S. ix. 309).—I cannot altogether agree for natives of the soil. His principal object with C. W B. that literary allusions and in coming to England was to secure a quotations are not numerous in the works French literature lectureship at an imof Dickens. It seems to me he was rather portant educational institution in London. fond of a certain humorous type of character He made applications for positions at King's who is continually larding his speech with College, University College, and a ladies' fragmentary quotations from songs, plays and other light literature. This type is at least as old as Beaumont and Fletcher's Knight of the Burning Pestle. Examples in Dickens are Jingle in 'Pickwick' Vincent Crummles in Nicholas Nickleby Dick Swiveller in The Old Curiosity Shop,' and Silas Wegg in Our Mutual Friend.' The two last named both quote trom The Beggar's Opera.' In The Old Curiosity Shop,' chap. lxv., Dick Swiveller exclaims :Speak, sister, speak, pretty Polly say." and in the following chapter :

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"Since laws were made for every degree, to curb vice in others as well as in me--and so forth, you know-doesn't it strike you in that light?

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In Our Mutual Friend,' Book III., chap. xiv., Silas Wegg addresses Mr. Venus:

"For, as the song says subject to your correction, sir

When the heart of a man is depressed with cares,
The mist is dispelled if Venus appears.
Like the notes of a fiddle you sweetly, sir, sweetly,
Raises our spirits and charms our ears.'

M. H. DODds.

WILLIAM SPRY OF EXETER (12 S. ix. 511). -Several members of the Harston family had Spry as a Christian name. This might assist C. H. S. CECIL CLARKE.

Junior Athenæum Club.

college near Cavendish Square, but having no influence all his efforts were fruitless. He even afterwards wrote to W. E. GladBritish Museum library, and to Thomas stone with reference to a position in the Carlyle about the London Library, but received no replies.

Paul Verlaine is sometimes credited with

having contributed numerous anti-English articles to Parisian newspapers, but he told my uncle and brother that this information was without foundation. He had no personal ill-feeling against the English, and the few essays on England he wrote published with his own name.

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ANDREW DE TERNANT. 36, Somerleyton Road, Brixton, S.W.

HATCHMENTS (12 S. ix. 310, 337, 377, 397, 433, 476, 497). Sixty years since there were the Galilee, Durham. many of these hanging above the arches in I have a photograph which shows them. And they have left their marks on the walls. They were certainly not all peers' coats of arms.

Some years ago I asked the sub-verger, Mr. Thos. Atkinson, what had become of the hatchments. He said, "They are in the triforium-like a vast else."

About the year 1857 I remember a hatchment over the door of a house in the Bailey,

and the fame of his character for trumping up fables and incredible narratives so widespread, that things of that kind came to be spoken of as

Durham, which belonged to the Shipperdson born at Bergé in that region, were so notorious, family of the Hermitage, near Durhama county family but not a peer's. Also, I think, on one of the houses in the College, Durham. M. E. A. P.

Crieff.

EGG FOLK-LORE : GOOD FRIDAY AND CHRISTMAS (12 S. ix. 489).-M. Thiers, in his Traité aes Superstitions,' i. 316, says that he has known people who preserve all the year such eggs as are laid on Good Friday, which they think are good to extingiush fires in which they may be throwr.

Brand, in Popular Artiquities (1849), i. 174, says, “Lebrun, in his Superstitions arciennes et modernes,' says that people keep eggs laid on Good Friday all ROBERT GOWER. the year round."

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ROBERT GOWER.

EARLY STANDARDS (12 S. ix. 388).-In of Northallerton Ingledew's History (1858), facing p. 12, is a plate with figures of the standard used at the Battle of the Standard from Aelred's Historia de bello Standardi,' taken from Twysden's Decem Scriptores.' WILLIAM BROWN.

TITLE OF ANNO QUINTO EDWARDI III. (12 S. ix. 353).—In a Collection of Sundry Statutes, frequent in use, edited by Francis Pulton of Lincolnes Inne, Esquire, and printed at London in 1636,' cap. x. is headed: "The punishment of Juror that is ambidexter, and taketh money." WILLIAM BROWN.

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Bergéan stories; and the word Bergaizein was coined to express the habit of drawing the long bow." (Some Physic logical Phantasies of Third Century Repute (B. G. Corney), Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine, 19131914, vii., Section of the History of Medicine, at

p. 226.)

As to the second half of query: Eponyms form a rich mine into which a series of shafts has been started by Sir D'Arcy Power in The British Journal of Surgery, 1921, ix.; the first two- (Colles) July, PP. 4-6; (Baker) October, pp. 200-203have already brought much original ore

to the surface.

Boston, Mass.

ROCKINGHAM.

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THE HOUSE OF HARCOURT (12 S. ix. 409, 453, 495, 514).-Your correspondent should consult La Roque's 'Histoire de la Maison de Harcourt.' It is a colossal work and he will find it in the British Museum Library. EDWARD H. DOBRÉE.

Udney Hall, Teddington.

In the Histoire des Expéditions maritimes des Normands,' by Deeping, "ouvrage couronné par l'Académie," there is a long detailed account of the adventurous career of Rollon or Rollo. Deeping says that there is no manner of doubt that he was a Norwegian. His father was Rognevald, the Jarl of More, one of the most powerful of the Norwegian nobles, who was directly descended through his grandmother from the oldest kings of Norway. His pedigree is given in 'Histoire de Norvège,' by Schoening. He died and was buried at Rouen in 931.

Bouillet, in his Dictionnaire universel'e,' states:

Harcourt, maison noble de France, remonte au neuvième siècle et reconnaît pour fondateur

Bernard le Danois qui était parent du chef THE CHIMNEY-SWEEPER'S CLIMBING BO Normand Rollo, et qui reçut de lui la terre (12 S. iii. 347, 462; iv. 28, 143).-The follo d'Harcourt en récompense des services qu'il lui avait rendus dans ses guerres contre les Anglais ing appeared in The Daily Chronicle, Dec.

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Swallowfield Park, Reading.'

THOMAS EDWARDS, LL.D. (12 S. ix. 511).– Croydon in the Past,' by Jessie W. Ward (1883), mentions two persons of this name to whom memorials are erected :

1. Thomas Edwards, d. May 4, 1824, aged 32, and two children; in St. John's churchyard. 2. Thomas Edwards, late of Llanfyllion, Montgomeryshire, d. Oct. 22, 1881, aged 78; in the cemetery, on the Nonconformist burialground.

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BOMBERS IN CHARLES II.'S NAVY (12) vi. 271; vii. 18; ix. 293).-Perhaps so further particulars may be added respecti Admiral Duquesne, by far the great name in French naval history, wh achievements are but little known

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Englishmen, even Clowes dismissing h as an able and experienced seaman, a quarrelsome man. Charnock, howev does full justice to his honesty and talen I can remember a life-size statue cast him in full uniform which stood forme in the central nave of the Crystal Pala Lempriere's Biographical Dictionary among the celebrities of different epochs (1808) gives three Thomas Edwards, all of them writers.

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The formation of a first-class Navy Louis XIV. and the construction of t Probably the one of whom information arsenal at Toulon in 1680 took place abo is sought is Thomas Edwards, poet and the date of Duquesne's three battles w critic of eminence, b. 1699, d. Jan. 3, 1757. the Dutch. On Jan. 8, 1676, he worsted, He purchased Turrick (? Terrick) in Bucks, the Lipari Isles, De Ruyter,* the command where he usually resided. His poetry, who had proved himself so formidable specimens of which will be found in adversary of the English general-admira Dodsley's and Nichols's collections, is Duke of York, Prince Rupert, Mon said to be simple, elegant and pathetic; Sandwich, Spragge-even Blake began s his criticisms exact, acute and temperate. vice in the Army, though he of cou His Canons of Criticism' were first printed belongs to the Commonwealth period in 1747 under the title of "A Supplement and though the issue was indecisive, to Dr. Warburton's Shakspeare and did him great credit both as a critic and scholar. He died on a visit to his friend Richardson, at Parsons Green, on the date

before mentioned.

Bedford.

L. H. CHAMBERS.

[A pleasant essay on Thomas Edwards, the critic, will be found in Austin Dobson's last book, 'Later Essays,' reviewed at 12 S. viii. 199.] MOSES GRIFFITH, COPPERPLATE ENGRAVER (12 S. i. 287, 417).-The original drawings by Moses Griffith for Plates vi., viii. end xxi. of Flora Scotica' (Lightfoot, 1777) are now in the Botanical Library, British Museum (Natural History). The last-mentioned one is on vellum, was not reversed as were the others, and differs slightly from the engraving.

J. ARDAGH.

enabled Duquesne to enter Messina, whi was then block ded by a Spanish for After refitting, he sailed out and convoy a squadron of supply ships to the 1 leaguered city, and then on April 22 foug a closely contested battle with De Ruy off Etna, in which the latter was so sever wounded that he died the following we On June 2 following, Duquesne signa defeated the Dutch and Spanish fleets Palermo; but for these invaluable servi all that he received from Louis XIV. v the empty title of Marquis and a sword honour, a marshal's baton being refus him because he would not abjure t

* The De of this name is not French " of," 1 the Dutch "the" (German der); the admir patronymic, therefore, signified" The Freeboote or "The Rider."

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