The Year 1854. This year commenced and will terminate on a Sunday. In looking through the Almanac, it will be seen that there are five Sundays in five months of the year, viz. in January, April, July, October, and December: five Mondays in January, May, July, and October; five Tuesdays in January, May, August, and October; five Wednesdays in March, May, August, and November; five Thursdays, in March, June, August, and November; five Fridays in March, June, September, and December; five Saturdays in April, July, September, and December; and, lastly, fifty-three Sundays in the year. The age of her Majesty the Queen is thirty-five, or seven times five; and the age of Prince Albert the same. Last Christmas having fallen on the Sunday, I am reminded of the following lines: "Lordings all of you I warn, If the day that Christ was born The winter shall be good I say, Queries. LITERARY QUERIES. MR. RICHARD BINGHAM will feel grateful to any literary friend who may be able to assist him in solving some or all of the following difficulties. 1. Where does Panormitan or Tudeschis (Commentar. in Quinque Libros Decretalium) apply the term nullatenenses to titular and utopian bishops? See Origines Ecclesiastica, 4. 6. 2. 2. In which of his books does John Bale, Bishop of Ossory, speaking of the monks of Bangor, term them "Apostolicals?" See Ibid., 7. 2. 13. 3. Where does Erasmus say that the preachers of the Roman Church invoked the Virgin Mary in the beginning of their discourses, much as the heathen poets were used to invoke their Muses ? See Ibid., 14. 4. 15.; and Ferrarius de Ritu Concionum, 1. 1. c. xi. 4. Bona (Rer. Liturg., 1. 11. c. ii. n. 1.) speaks of an epistle from Athanasius to Eustathius, where he inveighs against the Arian bishops, who in the beginning of their sermons said "Pax vobiscum!" while they harassed others, and were tragically at war. But the learned Bingham (14. 4. 14.) passes this by, and leaves it with Bona, because there is no such epistle in the works of Athanasius. Where else? How can Bona's error be corrected? or is there extant in operibus Athanasii a letter of W. W. his to some other person, containing the expressions to which Bona refers? Through all lands there shall be peace. Malta. A Significant Hint.-The following lines were communicated to me by a friend some years ago, as having been written by a blacksmith of the village of Tideswell in Derbyshire; who, having often been reproved by the parson, or ridiculed by his neighbours, for drunkenness, placed them on the church door the day after the event they com memorate: "Ye Tideswellites, can this be true, Which Fame's loud trumpet brings; Be wise next time, adopt this plan, And place at th' end of th' town a man It is said that, on the occasion of the late Prince 5. In another place (Rer. Liturg., 1. 11. c. 4. n. 3.) Bona refers to tom. iii. p. 307. of an Auctor Antiquitatum Liturgicarum for certain formule; and Joseph Bingham (15. 1. 2.) understands him to mean Pamelius, whose work does not exceed two volumes. Neither docs Pamelius notice at all the first of the two formula, though he has the second, or nearly the same. How can this also be explained? And to what work, either anonymous or otherwise, did Bona refer in his expression "Auctor Antiquitatum Liturgicarum?" 6. In which old edition of Gratiani Decretum, probably before the early part of the sixteenth century, can be found the unmutilated glosses of John Semeca, surnamed Teutonicus? and especially the gloss on De Consecrat., Distinct. 4. c. 4., where he says that even in his time (1250?) the custom still prevailed in some places of giving the eucharist to babes? See Orig. Ecclesiast., 15. 4.7. 7. Joseph Bingham (16. 3. 6.) finds fault with Baronius for asserting that Pope Symmachus anathat instead of Ista quidem ego, as given by Bathematized the Emperor Anastasius, and asserts ronius and Binius, in the epistle of Symmachus, Ep. vii. al. vi. (see also Labbe and Cossart, t. iv. p. 1298.), the true reading is Ista quidem nego. How can this be verified? The epistle is not extant either in Crabbe or Merlin. Is the argument of J. B. borne out by any good authority, either in manuscript or print? MR. BINGHAM will feel further obliged if the Replies to any or all of these Queries be forwarded direct to his address at 57. Gloucester Place, Portman Square, London. Minar Queries. Hunter of Polmood in Tweed-dale. -Where can the pedigree of the Hunters of Polmood, in Peebleshire, be seen? HUFREER. Dinteville Family. Of the family of Dinteville there were at this time, viz. 1530, two knights of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem. 1st. Pierre de Dinteville, Commander of Troyes, and Seneschal of his Order; son of Claude de Dinteville, Seigneur de Polisi and Chevets in Burgundy, and his wife Jeanne de la Beaume, daughter of the Lord of Mont St. Sorlin. The other was nephew to the Pierre above mentioned, son of his younger brother Gaucher, Lord of Polisi, &c.; and his wife, Anne du Plessis d'Ouschamps. His name was Louis de Dinteville: he was born June 25, 1503; was Commander of Tupigni and Villedieu, and died at Malta, July 22, 1531; leaving a natural son, Maria de Dinteville, Abbé of St. Michael de Tonnerre, who was killed in Paris by a pistol-shot in 1574. The brother of this Chevalier Louis, Jean, Seign. of Polisi, &c., was ambassador in England, and died a cripple A.D. 1555. Query, Which was the "Dominus" of the king's letter? ANON. Eastern Practice of Medicine. I shall feel indebted to any correspondent who will refer me to some works on the theory and practice of medicine as pursued by the native practitioners of India and the East generally P Sunday. gin or end P C. CLIFTON BARRY. When and where does Sunday be- Three Picture Queries.-1. Kugler (Schools of Painting in Italy, edited by Sir Charles Eastlake, 2nd edit., 1851, Part II. p. 284.), speaking of Leonardo da Vinci's cartoon, representing the victory of the Florentines in 1440 over Nicolo Picinnino, general of the Duke of Milan, and which has now perished, says: "Rubens copied from Leonardo's, a group of four horsemen fighting for a standard: this is engraved by Edelingk, and is just sufficient to make us bitterly deplore the loss of this rich and grand work." Does this picture exist? Does Edelingk's engraving state in whose possession it was then? 2. Where can I find any account of a painter named St. Denis? From his name and style, he appears to have been French, and to have flou rished subsequently to 1700. 3. Titian painted Charles III., Duke of Bourbon and Constable of France, who was killed May 6, 1527, at the siege of Rome. Where is this picture? It is said to have been engraved by Nörsterman. Where may I see the engraving? ARTHUR PAGET. "Cutting off with a Shilling."-This is understood to have arisen from the notion that the heir could not be utterly disinherited by will: that Something, however small, must be left him. Had such a notion any foundation in the law of England at any time? J. H. CHATEAU, Philadelphia. Inman or Ingman Family.—The family of Inman, Ionman, or Ingman, variously spelt, derivé from John of Gaunt. This family was settled for five successive generations at Bowthwaite Grange, Netherdale or Nithisdale, co. York, and intermarried with many of the principal families of that period. Alfred Inman married Amelia, daughter of Owen Gam. Who was Owen Gam? Arthur Inman married Cecilia, daughter of Llewellyn Clifford. Who was Llewellyn Clifford P Not mentioned in the Clifford Peerage. Perhaps MR. HUGHES, or some other correspondent of "N. & Q.," may know, and have the kindness to make known his genealogical history. This family being strong adherents of the House of Lancaster, raised a troop in the royal cause under the Duke of Newcastle, at the fatal battle of Marston Moor, where several brothers were slain, the rest dispersed, and the property confiscated to Cromwell's party about 1650-52. Any genealogical detail from public records prior to that period, would be useful in tracing the descent. Sir William de Roas de Ingmanthorpe was summoned to parliament in the reign of Edw. I. This Ingmanthorpe, or Inmanthorpe (spelt both ways), is, according to Thoresby, near Knaresborough on the Nidd. Query, Was this person's name Inman from his residence, as usual at that period? Arms: Vert, on a chevron or, three roses gules, slipped and leaved vert. Crest, on a mount vert, a wyvern ppr. ducally gorged, and lined or. Motto lost. A SUBSCRIBER, Southsea. Constable of Masham.-Alan Bellingham of Levins, in Westmoreland, married Susan, daughter of Marmaduke Constable of Masham, in Yorkshire, before the year 1624. I should be very much obliged to any of your genealogical readers, if they can inform me who was Marmaduke Constable of Masham; to which family of Constable he belonged; and where I explanation of this phrase? It occurs in the precould find a pedigree of his family. Malta. COMES STABULL. Minar Queries with Answers, Pepys. I have lately acquired a collection of letters between Pepys and Major Aungier, Sir Isaac Newton, Halley, and other persons, relating to the management of the mathematical school at Christ's Hospital; and containing details of the career of some of the King's scholars after leaving the school. The letters extend from 1692 to 1695; and are the original letters received by Pepys, with his drafts of the answers. They are loosely stitched, in order of date, in a thick volume, and are two hundred and upwards in number. Are these letters known, and have they ever been A. F. B. published or referred to? Diss. [It is a singular coincidence that we should receive the communication of A. F. B, on the day of the publication of the new and much improved library edition of Pepys's Diary, Would our correspondent permit us to submit his collection to the editor of Pepys, who would no doubt be gratified with a sight of it? We will guarantee its safe return, and any expenses inourred in its transmission. On turning to the fourth volume of the new edition of the Diary, we find the following letter (now first published) from Dr. Tanner, afterwards Bishop of St. Asaph, to Dr. Charlett, dated April 28, 1699 1- Mr. Pepys was just finishing a letter to you last night when I gave him yours. I hear he has printed some letters lately about the abuses of Christ's Hospital; they are only privately handed about. A gentleman that has a very great respect for Mr. Pepys, saw one of them in one of the Aldermen's bands, but wishes there had been some angry express sions left out; which he fears the Papists and other enemies of the Church of England will make ill use of" Is anything known of this "privately printed" volume? In the Life of Pepys (4th edit., p. ***i. ), mention is made of his having preserved from ruin the mathematical foundation at Christ's Hospital, which had been originally designed by him, En. ] "Retainers to Seven Shares and a Half" - -- Can any reader of "N. & Q.," conversant with the literature of the seventeenth century, furnish an face to Steps to the Temple, &c., of Richard Crashaw (the 2nd edit., in the Savoy, 1670), addressed by "the author's friend" to "the learned reader," and is used in disparagement of pretenders to poetry. The passage runs thus: "It were prophane but to mention here in the preface those under-headed poets, retainers to seven shares and a half; madrigal fellows, whose only business in verse is to rime a poor sixpenny soul, a subburb sinner into hell," &c. [The performers at our earlier theatres were distinguished into whole shares, three-quarter sharers, half sharers, seven-and-a-half sharers, hired men, &e. In one scene of the Histriomastic, 1610, the dissolute performers having been arrested by soldiers, one of the latter exclaims, "Come on, players! now we are the sharers, and you the hired men;" and in another seene, Clout, one of the characters, rejects with some indig nation the offer of "half a share," Gamaliel Ratsey, in that rare tract, Rutseis Ghost, 1606, knights the principal performer of a company by the title of "Sir Three Shares and a Half," and Tucea, in Ben Jonson's Poetuster, addressing Histrio, observes, "Commend me to Neven shares and a half," as if some individual at that period had engrossed as large a proportion, Shakspeare, in Hamlet, speaks of "a whole share " as a source of no contemptible emolument, and of the owner of it as a person filling no inferior station in "a ery of players." In Northward Ho! also, a sharer is noticed with respect, Bellamont the poet enters, and tells his servant, "Sirrah, I'll speak with none" on which the servant asks, "Not a player ?" and his master replies: "No, though a sharer bawl: The value of a share in any particular company would depend upon the number of subdivisions, upon the popularity of the body, upon the stock-plays belonging to it, upon the extent of its wardrobe, and the nature of its properties, See Collier's English Dramatic Poetry, vol. iii. p. 427.] Madden's "Reflections and Resolutions proper for the Gentlemen of Ireland.". This work, by the Rev. Samuel Madden, was first published in Dublin in 1788, and was reprinted at the expense of the late Mr. Thomas Pleasants, in one vol, vo pp. 224, Dub. 1816. 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Dr. Dibdin, in a note to his edition of More's Utopia, vol. ii. p. 97., says : "Whoever will be at the trouble of consulting Part II. sect. IV. memb. i. subsect. 4. of the last folio edition of Burton [1676], will see how it varies from the first folio of 1624; and will, in consequence, regret the omission of the notice of these variations in the octavo editions of Burton recently published." The octavo editions here referred to are those of 1800 and 1806; the latter, I believe, edited by Edward Du Bois. The folio of 1676 is, in all probability, an exact reprint of that of 1651, which certainly differs considerably from those of an earlier date. Henry Cripps, the publisher of the edition of 1651, has the following notice: "To the Reader. Be pleased to know (courteous Reader) that since the last impression of this Book, the ingenuous author of it is deceased, leaving a copy of it exactly corrected, with several considerable additions by his own hand. This copy he committed to my care and custody, with directions to have those additions inserted in the next edition; which, in order to his command and the publicke good, is faithfully performed in this last impression. H. C." Modern writers have been deeply indebted to old Robert Burton; but he, in his turn, was equally indebted to earlier writers. Dr. Dibdin remarks: "I suspect that Burton, the author of the Anatomy of Melancholy, was intimately acquainted with Boiastuan's book as translated by Alday; for there are passages in Burton's 'Love Melancholy' (the most extraordinary and amusing part of his work), which bear a very strong resemblance to many in the Gests and Countenances ridiculous of Lovers,' at p. 195. of Boiastuan's Theatre, or Rule of the World." The title of the curious book mentioned in this extract is "Theatrum Mundi. Theatre, or Rule of the World: Wherein may bee seene the running Race and Course of everie Mannes Lyfe, as touching Miserie and Felicitie: whereunto is added a learned Worke of the excellencie of Man. Written in French by Peter Boiastuan. Translated by John Alday. Printed by Thomas East, for John Wright, 8vo. 1582." But Burton was more indebted to another work, very similar in title and matter to his own; I mean Dr. Bright's curious little volume, of which I transcribe the title-page in full: "A Treatise of Melancholy: contayning the Causes thereof, and reasons of the strange Effects it worketh in our Minds and Bodies; with the Phisicke Cure, and Spirituall Consolation for such as have thereto adjoyned afflicted Conscience. The difference betwixt it and Melancholy, with diverse philosophical Discourses touching Actions, and Affections of Soule, Spirit, and Body: the Particulars whereof are to be seene before the Booke. By T. Bright, Doctor of Phisicke. Imprinted at London by John Windet, sm. 8vo. 1586." It has been remarked that Burton does not acknowledge his obligations to Bright. This, however, is not strictly true, as the former acknowledges several quotations in the course of his work. It would certainly be desirable, in the event of a new edition of the Anatomy, that a comparison of the two books should be made. As a beginning towards this end, I subjoin a table of the contents of Bright's Treatise, with a notice of some similar passages in Burton's Anatomy, arranged in parallel columns. I may just add, that Bright's Treatise consists of 276 pages, exclusive of a dedication "To the Right Worshipful M. Peter Osborne," &c. (dated from "Little S. Bartlemews by Smithfield, the lancholick Friend M." 13 of May, 1586"); and an address "To his Me collected by the Rev. Joseph Hunter, and comAll that is known of his biography has been municated to the last edition of Wood's Athenæ Oxonienses, vol. ii. p. 174. note. BRIGHT'S "TREATISE OF MELANCHOLY, 1586. The Contentes of the Booke according to the Chapters. 1. How diversly the word Melancholy is taken. 2. The causes of naturall melancholy, and of the excesse thereof. 3. Whether good nourishment breede melancholy, by fault of the body turning it into melancholy : and whether such humour is found in nourishments, or rather is made of them. 4. The aunswere to objections made against the breeding of melancholicke humour out of nourishment. 5. A more particular and farther answere to the former objections. 6. The causes of the increase and excesse of melancholicke humour. 7. Of the melancholicke excrement. 8. What burnt choller is, and the causes thereof. 9. How melancholie worketh fearful passions in the mind. 10. How the body affecteth the soule. 11. Objections againste the manner how the body affecteth the soule, with answere thereunto. 12. A farther answere to the former objections, and of the simple facultie of the soule, and onely organicall of spirit and body. 13. How the soule, by one simple facultie, performeth so many and diverse actions. BURTON'S "ANATOMY OF MELANCHOLY," edit. 1651. Parallel Sections. Definition of Melancholy: name, difference. The causes of melancholy. Customs of dyet. delight, appetite, necessity: how they cause or hinder. Dyet rectified in substance. Immediate cause of these precedent symptomes. Of the matter of melancholy. Symptomes or signes in the mind. Of the soul and her faculties. |