LONDON, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1896. CONTENT S.-N° 246. " NOTES:-Jerusalem and Nottingham, 209-Dictionary of how farr that Town of Nottingham doth run parallel with Hierusalem. Was Hierusalem set upon precipitious hills, and is not Nottingham so? and as the mountains stood about Hierusalem, Psal. 125, do they not so about Nottingham? and as there were two famous Ascents in Hierusalem, Mount Moriah, upon which the_Temple stood, and Mount Zion, where stood that lofty Tower of David, incomparably perching over City and Countrey, and is it not so in Nottingham? where, upon one high rock, as upon another Moriah, stands that fair Church (if my rule fail not) some cubits bigger than the Temple; and upon another, yet higher mountain (like that of Zion), stands that ancient Castle, over-topping Town and Countrey, the lowest stone whereof (before it's dismantling) was higher then the top stones of many others in the Land; whose climbing Towers, scituate upon those perpendicular rocks, did ascend to such a stupendious height, like another Zion, as if the Spectators should believe that they intended to peer into the clouds, or to pick a quarrel with the Moon. Upon the highest part whereof, in the beginning of the past miserable broyles, was the Standard Royal, of unhappy, and too late (alas!), too late lamented Majesty lifted up; which Castle, had not the divisions been homebred, might have said unto all her Enemies, as sometimes the Jebusites, trusting to the strength of Zion, jeeringly told David; That they would set up the lame and the blinde to keep that Tower against him. Further I could tell you, how that crystalline River Trent, like another Jordan, or that little River Line, like that Brook Kydron, trilling down by the foot, and as it were washing the toes of that Hieru Falkner's Libertas Ecclesiastica '-Preston-Caer Greu: Fotes. JERUSALEM AND NOTTINGHAM. Preachers and poets are allowed a wide field in their comparisons; but is it not rather a far cry from Nottingham to Jerusalem ? I have just purchased a sermon which leads me to ask this question. It is entitled : "The Everlasting Covenant. As it was Delivered in a Sermon at St. Paul's, before the Gentlemen and Citizens of Nottinghamshire, upon the 24 of December, 1658. These annual feasts, at which the "natives" of various counties met together, and, after attending divine service at St. Paul's Cathedral or at some other church, were wont to dine together after the hearty English fashion, seem to have been very popular institutions. And this particular feast was of more than usual interest to the natives aforesaid, because for the first time a Nottinghamshire man (Sir John Ireton) was Lord Mayor of the City of London. The preacher's mind was full of the importance of the occasion, and in the preamble to his discourse he thus exalts the town of Nottingham: "It is no difficult matter to shew, that the obligements of God are as much upon you to be his people, as ever they were upon Judah, and Hierusalem: to tell you (if time would give leave), that your Countrey doth match the land of Canaan in plenty, and pleasures, and meadows, whose beds (without a metaphor)_are_green, over whom this fair Town sits as the delicate Spectatress, smiling upon the scene, while the hills crowd upon her shoulders, as if over them they would steal a sight of those Valley [sic] delightfull pleasures and to conclude, like another Hierusalem, at what a distance does She present to the gazing traveller a stately and majestick Aspect? upon whose fore-head, as upon a Jewish frontlet in Capital letters, seems to be written that of the Psalmist, Walk about this Zion, mark well her bulwarks, consider her palaces, that yee may tell it to the generation following." There was, indeed, another side to the fair There were picture. "Seekers, Ranters, and Quakers," who had "over-spred the beautifull face thereof." But even these give occasion to more magniloquence : "Just as the Sun, when hee displaies his pleasant spring beams upon Orchards, and Gardens, and thinking thereby to warm, and draw forth the fruits of the earth for the comfort of man: then do the snakes, adders, and ing up their bellies, and beaking themselves in the sweet such poisonfull creatures come forth of their holes, turnbeams thereof; so hath this Vermin crept abroad in our Countrey," &c. I observe that the very peculiar use of the word beak in this sentence has not escaped the notice of the compilers of the New English Dictionary,' for there I find, "Beak, var. form of beek, v., to warm," This word beek appears to be a Northcountry word, and, amongst other meanings, has this to expose one's self to pleasurable warmth, to bask. After this it will not be surprising to learn that "The soul of man is a precious thing, and the loss thereof sad in any Countrey. Yet mee thinks in the aguish parts of Kent, and Essex, where I have seen sometimes a whole Parish sick together, the souls that miscarry thence, seem but to go from Purgatory to Hell; But those that perish out of Nottingham-shire, go from Heaven to Hell; And Thou Capernaum that art exalted to heaven, shalt be cast down to hell." Nor is this all : "When a soul miscarries out of Nottingham-shire, mee thinks in melancholy Visions, I see those Infernal Spirits flocking about it, and saying, What art thou fallen from thine Excellencie? Art thou come from those pleasant mountaines to these Stygian Lakes? from that Lightsom and ambitious Air to these darksom Cells? Art thou also weak as wee? Art thou become like one of us?" I have read a good many sermons of this age, but I do not remember to have read anything at 66 high this period quite so flowery, not to say falutin." It only needs a few words about the "Nottingham lambs" skipping over the green meadows to make a very complete picture. The preacher makes one long to pay a visit to this Jerusalem of his own discovery. I am one of those unhappy persons who have never made a pilgrimage to Nottingham; but if it is half as beautiful as Mr. Marmaduke James depicts it to be, excursion trains ought to be arranged at once, that its charms may gladden the eyes of weary W. SPARROW SIMPSON. citizens. 'DICTIONARY OF NATIONAL BIOGRAPHY': NOTES AND CORRECTIONS. (See 6th S. xi. 105, 443; xii. 321; 7th S. i. 25, 82, 342, 376; ii. 102, 324, 355; iii. 101, 382; iv. 123, 325, 422; v. 3, 43, 130, 362, 463, 506; vii. 22, 122, 202, 402; viii. 123, 382; ix. 182, 402; x. 102; xi. 162, 242, 342; xii. 102; 8th S. i. 162, 348, 509; ii. 82, 136, 222, 346, 522; iii. 183; iv. 384; v. 82, 284, 504; vi. 142, 383; vii. 102; viii. 63, 203, 443; ix. 263; x. 110.) Vol. XLVII. P. 17 a. John Pullain. See 'Aschami Epistolæ,' 1602, p. 172. P. 19. Josiah Pullen's walks up Headington Hill, Guardian, i. 13; mock epitaph on, Terræ Filius,' 1726, i. 149. P. 34. W. Pulteney. Gay addressed a poem to him; vol. ii. of the Guardian was dedicated to him. Ed. Wells dedicated one of the maps in his 'Dionysius' to W. P., who had probably been his pupil. P. 36 a. Andrew Pulton's school in the Savoy, Bp. Patrick's 'Autobiography,' p. 215. Pp. 37-8. Punshon. See Lond. Quarterly Rev., Jan., 1888; Spectator, 14 April, 1888; Andrews, 'North Country Poets'; Cassell's Nat. Port. Gallery'; 'Men of the Time'; Times, 15, 20 April, 1881; Guardian, 1881, p. 548; Illust. L. News, 1881, p. 407; Leeds Mercury, 14 Jan., 1888. He also published Sunday Evening Book,' 1862; 'Handbook of Illustrations,' 1874; 'Prodigal Son,' 1868; 'Life Thoughts'; some of his sermons are in the Wesleyan Pulpit'; there was a printed catalogue of his collection of autograph letters. Pp. 41-2. Henry Purcell. Prior's 'Hymn to the Sun,' 1694, was set by him, 'Poems,' 1718, P. 26; anthems by "that most ingenious artist were sung at the funeral of H. Wharton, "Life," prefixed to 'Sermons,' 1700, i. Sheffield, D. of "the Buckingham, wrote an ode on his death famous Parcel," Boccalini, 'Parnassus,' 1704, iii. 93; a Latin rebus on his name, Wrangham, Zouch,' i. p. lxxxix; Coleridge, Table Talk,' 1874, p. 267 ("I love Purcell "). P. 45. John Purchas. Add to his writings: Christ in His Ordinances,' a farewell sermon, 1853; Translation of the Cautels of the Sarum Missal Photographs of Ecclesiastical Vestments, 1858'; The Mural Crown,' sermon at S. Alban's, Holborn, 1871; Meditations on the Seven Last Words, n.d. Are the first three articles on p. 45 b rightly assigned to him? P. 45 b, line 3. For "ritualism" read ritual. Pp. 48-9. Bp. Pursglove. See Yorksh. Record Series, vol. ii., Brett, Suffragan Bishops,' 61; Strype's Works,' 1828, index; Haines, 'Brasses'; Cambr. Camd. Soc. Illust., i. p. 19, pl. 27; Helme, 'Miscell. Fragments,' 1815, p. 179; Young's Whitby,' 1817, i. 461; Guest's 'Rotherham," 1879, pp. 121-2, 147; Tweddell's 'Cleveland Whellan's' York and North Riding,' ii. 189-201; Gent. Mag., 1865, April, p. 453; 'N. & Q.,' 8th S. v. 245; Cox, Churches of Derbyshire,' 1877, ii. 303-5; Tideswell Parish Mag., 1869; Reliquary, xvii. 6; Gunnell's 'Johnson MSS.' (a forgery); Church Times, 25 March, 1 April, 1892; Leeds Mercury, 21 June, 5 July, 1884. P. 57 b, line 16 from foot. For "Gaumé," "of," read Gaume, for. P. 74 b. Pyle's 'Paraphrase on the Acts and Epistles,' 5th ed., 1765. Edmund Pyle, Archdeacon of York and Prebendary of Winchester, died 14 Dec., 1776; there is a monument to him in Winchester Cathedral. Pp. 75, 83. Brymore, Brynmore. P. 78 a. Pym annoyed the Roman Catholics by constantly declaring in Parliament that their religion was destructive of all others; Hammond, 'Infallibility,' p. 102. P. 81 a. Denham addressed a 'Petition of the Poets to the Five Members,'' Poems,' 1684, p. 101. P. 82 b. Pym and Waller's plot, see "Life" prefixed to Waller's 'Poems,' ed. 10, 1722, p. xx. P. 95 b. An edition of the 'School of the Heart' "by Francis Quarles," Chiswick Press, 1812. P. 96. Quarles. Addison's opinion, in 'Works, 1726, ii. 293; see preface to Pomfret's 'Poems.' P. 110 b. Quin and Thomson, see "Life" fixed to Thomson's 'Works,' 1768, p. xviii, and 'Castle of Indolence,' i. lxvii. pre P. 127 b, line 15 from foot. Remove bracket, and put comma after "Maria" in preceding line. P. 128 a. Radcliffe's execution, 1746; see Gray, by Mason, 1827, p. 335. P. 128 a. "Buried with him" ? Buried near him. Pp. 129-132. Dr. Radcliffe. Pomfret says he did but guess, 'Poems,' 1807, p. 101; Cockman dedicated to him 'Cicero de Oratore,' 1696; Wrangham, ‘Zouch,' ii. There is some confusion in the article between the University and University College. P. 151 a. For "Margarie" read Marjorie. P. 159 b. Elizabeth Whitaker was baptized at Doncaster, 8 July, 1733. P. 160. Thomas Raffles was ordained not at Hammersmith, but at Kensington Chapel; the "Charge by Dr. W. B. Collyer, was printed, 1809. Sermons by him in the Pulpit and Evangelical Pulpit; also on the death of Sarah Job, Liverpool, 1828, and of Dr. R. S. M'All, 1838; the funeral services on his death, by J. Kelly, J. Parsons, and E. Mellor, were printed, Liverpool, 1863. Miller, 'Singers and Songs, 1869, p. 404. Pp. 161-165. Sir T. S. Raffles. A second edition of his 'Java,' 1830; it was translated into French, 1824; a second edition of his ‘Life,' by his widow, 1835. P. 167 b. For "Cestrensis" read Cestriensis (177 b). Pp. 172-3. Rainborow. See 'N. & Q.,' 6th S. v. 180; Bates and Skinner, Civil Wars,' 1688, ii. 225; 'D. N. B.,' vi. 439, 440. Pp. 177-8. F. R. Raines. See Rochdale Times, 19 Oct., 2 Nov., 1878; Rochdale Observer, 19 Oct., 26 Oct., 1878; Manchester Courier, 19 Dec., 1878; Manchester Dioc. Directory,' 1879, pp. 208-9; Fishwick's 'Rochdale,' 1889, pp. 214-5; Academy, 1878, p. 404; Athenæum, 1878, p. 532; Illust. L. News, 1878, p. 402; Annual Register,' 1878, p. 175. Printed sale catalogue of his books, Manchester, 1878, 8vo., pp. 40. P. 177 b. Coultate? For "rector" read vicar. Pp. 180 b, 181 b. Spencer, Spenser. Pp. 186-206. Sir W. Ralegh lent a MS. to the editor of Fortescue,' 1616 (notes, 35); was a friend of Nicholas Ferrar's father, Wordsworth, 'Eccl. Biog.,' 1818, v. 76. There are lives of Ralegh, by Charles Whitehead, 1854, and by Samuel G. Drake, Boston, U.S. A., 1862. P. 227. Dr. Ramage was a frequent contributor to 'N. & Q.,' see 5th S. x. 478. P. 269. Randall. Why should a school at Heath be noticed in a history of Wakefield Grammar School? See De Morgan, 'Arithm. Books.' P. 281 a, line 18, insert comma after Hide. Pp. 281-2. Tho. Randolph. See 'N. & Q.,' 3rd S. x. 439, 458, 500; Academy, 23 April, 1892. P. 296. Ranyard. See Hamst, Fictitious Names,' p. 85. Pp. 346-7. Sir Tho. Raymond. See Bp. Patrick's Autob.,' p. 51. P. 361 a. For "Fairish" (bis) read Farish (xviii. 208). P. 366 b. William Reading. Ar. Bedford, 'Scripture Chronology,' 1730, received civilities" from him. "many P. 382. John Redman is often mentioned in Ascham's 'Letters.' Wordsworth, ‘Eccl. Biog.,' 1818, iii. 19, iv. 124. P. 383. Sir M. Redman. See Jones, 'Hist. of Harewood,' 1859. P. 385. Redvers family. See Jones, 'Hist. of Harewood,' 1859. P. 392. I. Reed. See Mathias, 'P. of L.,' p. 137. P. 412 a, line 26. Transpose" of a sailor" after shop." belief that the witty Andrew Borde-" Andreas GOTHAM AND GOTHAMITES.—It is a very usual of The Merie Tales of the Mad Men of Gotam,' so described by Dr. Furnivall. Dr. Brewer, in his new edition of 'Phrase and Fable,' states, without qualification, that "Andrew Boyde [sic], a native of Gotham, wrote 'The Merrie Tales of the Wise Men of Gotham,' founded on a commission signed by Henry VIII. to the magistrates of that town to prevent poaching." Dr. Brewer also tells the story of the Gothamites outwitting King John. Nathan Bailey has the proverb, “As wise as a man of Gotham." Perforatus as he called himself-was the author of a Fool, and an 100 Fopperies are feign'd and father'd "This proverb," says he, "passes for the Periphrasis on the Town-folk of Gotham, a Village in Nottinghamshire." 'Cassell's Gazetteer,' now in course of publication, states that "Gotham is seven miles south-west of Nottingham, and is noted in legend for its wise men.' A spot on one of the hills overlooking the village is still known as Cuckoo Bush, the local tradition being that here the villagers were found by King John planting a hedge to keep in the cuckoo." P. 318 a. Owen addressed two epigrams to The village is of some size, and has a population of William Ravenscroft. 1,134. Dr. Furnivall, in his interesting notice of Andrew Borde ('D. N. B.,' vol. v.), asserts that Borde was born near Cuckfield, in Sussex, A.D. 1490, and that "The Merie Tales of the Mad Men of Gotam' have been assigned to him without any evidence. In view of these conflicting statements perhaps the authorship and origin of the Gotham stories might be discussed with advantage in N. & Q.' I can hardly suppose that the subject has never been treated in the pages of 'N. & Q.,' but am unable to refer to the earlier volumes at present, and, in any case, Dr. Brewer's statement is of yesterday, as it were, while Dr. Furnivall's was published only ten years ago. In Jenkins's queer little 'Vest-Pocket Lexicon' (1871) I find " Gothamist, a dunce, a blunderer." JAMES HOOPER. [See 1st S. ii, 476, 520; 6th 8. xi. 386, 433.] "PINASEED.”—Probably there are not half a dozen readers of or contributors to 'N. & Q.' who can read aright the meaning of the curious word 'pinaseed." Its use was not outside the games and amusements of children in Derbyshire fifty years ago, and may still be met with, no doubt. In the spring-time, when wild flowers abound, this word, which means a whole sentence, was in constant use for some weeks among children in Derbyshire villages. It was the custom for children, mostly girls, to take a piece of glass, the larger the better effect, and after placing it on a piece of cotton material or stout paper, to arrange, with faces downwards on the glass, as many heads of flowers as could be laid on it, having in the arrangement due regard to the variety and colours of the flowers. The flowers were, in fact, a mosaic. When the glass was completely covered, the material or paper was folded tight over the flowers and sewn in position with threads. The covering on the front of the glass was then cut on three sides of a square, so as to form a flap, which when turned down showed the flower mosaic on the back of the glass. Often what was shown was exceedingly pretty. This was the "pinaseed," and the children went about showing it, the exhibition fee being a pin. "Pinaseed" is short for "a pin to see it." Fifty years ago pins were neither so plentiful nor so cheap as they are nowadays. Worksop. THOS. RATCLIFFE. EASTER AT RYTON, 1595.-The following note is copied from an entry made by the Rev. Francis Bunnye, Rector of Ryton, on the first page of a book containing an account of Easter offerings and small tithes for the year 1595. It is curious on two accounts: (1) from its mention of tokens in connexion with holy Communion; (2) from the fact that the rector evidently went during Holy Week to places remote from the parish church to administer holy Communion to those who otherwise might have been unable to communicate : DRYDEN'S HOUSE IN FETTER LANE.-London topography involves many difficult problems, as is evident to any one reading the note on 'Vanishing London' at p. 154 of the present volume of N. & Q' It is there said, on the authority of London for 28 May, that "until 1885 there was a tablet upon the quaint little house No. 16 [Fetter Lane], over Fleur-de-Lys Court, saying that 'Here liv'd John Dryden,'" &c. Mr. Wheatley, in his 'London Past and Present,' ii. 37, writes: "Dryden is said, but on insufficient grounds, to have lived at No. 16, by Flower-de-Luce Court, a house pulled down in 1887." There is a good account of Fetter Lane in Thornbury's 'Old and New London,' which includes (i. 102) a view of the house said to have been occupied by Dryden, but does not state the number. Mr. T. E. Knightley sent to the Builder a note, with an illustration of the house, which was reproduced in 'The London and Middlesex Note-Book,' p. 39, in which he says that "on the house No. 17A, now demolished, was a tablet with this inscription," &c. Knightley's drawing represents from another point of view the house shown in 'Old and New London,' with this difference, that in the former the tablet is clearly marked, while in the latter it is only indicated by a creux, or hollowed impression. Mr. Knightley's authority is good, as he says he took the sketch before the demolition of the house, which had belonged to a client of his, who disposed of it to the City Sewers Commission. It is doubtful, notwithstanding the tablet, whether Dryden ever lived in the house at all. Mr. Leslie Stephen, in his memoir of Dryden in the 'Dict. Nat. Biog.,' asserts that he did; but MR. C. A. WARD, in a note in N. & Q.,' 8th S. v. 382, shows that there are serious objections to accepting this statement. MR. WARD, however, goes too far in saying that the sketch of the house in 'Old and New London is apocryphal, because it does not show the in Mr. scribed stone. It shows, as stated above, the place where the stone was placed, and represents undoubtedly the house which was traditionally held to be Dryden's residence. W. F. PRIDEAUX. Kingsland, Shrewsbury. "FULLISH."-One of the joys of a summer's holiday is to peruse at leisure one of Charles Reade's novels, as published at sixpence in paper covers by Messrs. Chatto & Windus. The amount of excellent matter, the distinctness and the accuracy of the type, and the firm texture of the paper are all remarkable at the price. Occasionally a peculiarity stops the reader, and he wishes a standard edition-a library copy-for purposes of interesting collation. In the absence of this the wonder remains, and thus finds expression. For example, in chap. lxxviii. of 'It is Never too Late to Mend,' that excellent heroine Miss Susan Merton, momentarily overcome by the astute plotter Meadows, twice calls herself "fullish." In chap. lxxxiv. she describes her lover's grief over fullish," and she is displeased his lost money as because her two interlocutors are so fullish as to take any notice of her fullishness." In the following chapter she indicates that "fullishness is a part of her character," and calls tears "fullish drops," and suspects that she has in herself the making of a fullish wife." This cannot all be due to the pressing exigencies of a reprint. Is it Reade's playful way of indicating that in the fifties orthography was not a strong point with the feminine intellect, which was not then fully and finally emancipated; or is there, perchance, something more subtle in his whim? Meanwhile, the jaded reader of modern novels may always find refreshing distraction and stimulus amid the rich narrative pastures of Charles Reade. THOMAS BAYNE. Helensburgh, N.B. AMMIANUS MARCELLINUS.-The great value of the Encyclopædia Britannica' as a work of reference makes it desirable to point out a slip in it with regard to the life, or rather death, of this writer. "There are several facts," we read, "mentioned in the history which prove that the author was alive in the year 380. Of this number are the accession of Theodosius to the Eastern empire, the character of Gratian, and the consulate of Neotherius." Of the two former no remark need be made. Theodosius was elevated by Gratianus to the Eastern empire in A.D. 379, not long after the defeat and death of Valens by the Goths. This is the last event actually mentioned in the history of Ammianus; but in bk. xxvi. c. v. § 14, he speaks of Neoterius, then (A.D. 365) only a secretary (notarius), and adds "postea consulem." Now it does not appear that Neoterius was consul until A.D. 390, so that (according to this) Ammianus was still alive in at least part of the latter year. But, if so, it is strange that he OWEN FELLTHAM.-Some interesting particulars concerning him and his wife Mary (with whom, sad to relate, the philosopher could not agree) will be found in the 'Seventh Report of the Historical Manuscripts Commission,' Appendix, p. 171. GORDON GOODWIN. THE WORD "HUNGER" IN PLACE-NAMES.-The name Hunger Hill occurs with some frequency in Yorkshire and Derbyshire. At Morley, near Leeds, a place bearing this name is popularly called "'Unger 'Ill," the g having a nasal sound which I cannot indicate in writing. The word hunger occurs in German place-names, and Förstemann, 'Die deutschen Ortsnamen,' p. 173, says : "Kommt der Hunger heutzutage nicht selten vor, namentlich in dem vielfach wiederkehrenden Hungerbach (der im Sommer austrocknet); das Hungerwinchel (8) könnte hieher gehören, wenn man des genauen Abdrucks der Urkunde gewiss sein könnte." With the exception, however, of Hungerwinchel, there seems to be no early instance of the use o this word either in English or German documents; at least I have seen none. And even Hungerwinchel is doubtful. Canon Taylor says that Hungerford was formerly known as Ingleford (Words and Places,' sixth edition, p. 267). If we compare Hungerford with the German Hungerbach, the meaning of these two place-names would appear to be "dearth ford" and "dearth brook," for hunger is sometimes used in Old English in the sense of "dearth" (see Mätzner). Grimm has a good deal to say about lakes and springs which periodically rise and fall, and thereby for"A spring," he says, bode dearth or other evils. that either runs over or dries up is called ('Teut. Myth.,' hungerquelle, hungerbrunnen ed. Stallybrass, p. 590). " As regards Hunger Hill, the meaning appears to be "desire-for-food hill.” According to Jamieson there is land in the West of Scotland called "hungry ground," and this is "believed to be so much under the power of enchantment that he who passes over it would infallibly faint if he did not The use something for the support of nature." 'Times Atlas' mentions a place called Bek-pakdala, at Akmolinsk, in Central Asia, and this is interpreted as "Hunger Steppe." In walking a considerable distance over high ground, where the air is sharper, a man would naturally get hungry |