British Plants, edit. 1863, p. 182, says: "Prickmadam (Fr. trique-madam, for triacque à madam, L. theriaca), an anthelmintic medicine, among the principal ingredients of which were stone-crops, Sedum acre, album, and reflexum, L." Culpeper's Complete Herbal, edit. 1816, p. 179, says "Stonecrop, prick-madam, or small houseleek." After giving a description of this plant, its place of growth and time of flowering, its goverment and virtues, it says, "it is under the dominion of the moon, cold in quality and something binding, and therefore very good to stay defluctions, especially such as fall upon the eyes; stops bleeding," &c. It would, I think, appear from this that some other plant is meant than these stonecrops in the old "via recta ad vitam longam." EDWARD PARFITT.

[The REV. W. R. TATE, ST. SWITHIN, MR. F. C. BIRKBECK TERRY, MR. GEORGE H. BRIERLEY, and MR. F. H. MARSHALL are thanked for the same information.]

TICHBORNE DOLE (6th S. xi. 447).-The following account of the Tichborne dole is taken from Woodward's History of Hampshire, vol. ii. p. 17: "Sir Roger de Titchbourne is said to have married Isabel, or Mabel, the heiress of Lemerston, Isle of Wight. The legend of the Crawls' tells us that she upon her death-bed begged her lord for her sake to bestow a perpetual dole upon the poor. He promised that so much land as she could then crawl round during the burning out of a torch which he held should be set aside for the benefit of the poor for ever. Thenceforward, so the tale runs, the annual value of the land round which the dying lady crawled was yearly, upon Lady Day, given away in small doles to all comers. The prosperity of the house of Titchbourne hung as much upon the continuance of that dole as the fate of the lords of the old Cumberland Castle did on the luck of Edenhall.'...... The Titchbourne dole was discontinued in the last century, and in its place a distribution of money amongst the poor of the parish was established. The ancient dole weight was 1 lb. 10 oz., and 1,200 dole loaves were given away; so that nearly one ton of bread must in that manner have been yearly distributed. Morsels of the bread were carefully kept by the recipients, as they were supposed to have the virtue ascribed to Good Friday buns, and to be of sovereign efficacy in curing ague and other ailments." WM. LYALL.

MR. JOHN TAYLOR will find a full account of the origin of the Tichborne dole in the Journal of the British Archæological Association, vol. ii. p. 277, in an article on the Limmerston family.

The outline of the origin is too well known and too long to give full details in "N. & Q." As this Journal, being printed only for the members of the Association, may possibly not be easily accessible, I shall be happy to lend my extract to MR. TAYLOR, should no correspondent of "N. & Q." indicate another source. JOHN J. STOCKEN.

3, Heathfield Road, Acton, W.

MR. TAYLOR is referred to the Reader's Hand

book, by Dr. Brewer; All the Year Round, 2nd S. vi. 583; and Chambers's Book of Days, i. 167. EVERARD HOME COLEMAN.

71, Brecknock Road.

[G. F. R. B. obliges with the same extract as MR. LYALL.]

DATES OF ACCESSION OF ENGLISH SOVEREIGNS (6th S. xi. 466, 496, 519).—Lingard says, "The coronation [of John] took place on May 26, the festival of the Ascension." Rapin, "He was determined, therefore, to pass the sea, and arriving at London the 25th May, he caused himself to be crowned next day at Westminster." Matthew Paris, "Per idem in Angliam; et apud Sorham applicuit Octavo tempus, Dux Normmania Johannes, transfretavit Kalendas Junii; et in crastino in vigilia videlicet Dominica Ascensionis, Londonias venit, ibidem coronandus." So as to the month of his accession these three writers are in perfect accord. As M. Paris lived near the time he may fairly be taken as safe authority upon the subject. He died in 1259.

EDMUND TEW, M.A., F.R.Hist.S.

Mr. Timbs is clearly not wrong, according to the legal fiction that the crown can never lapse, by which, so soon as one king is dead, his successor begins to reign. Richard I. died April 8, 1199, and John became king then, although he was not crowned till May 25. Charles II. became king on January 30, 1648, so soon as the axe fell on his father's neck. But he was not restored until 1660, having been proclaimed king in London May 8 of that year. It will be remembered that Acts of Parliament of 1660 are dated 12 Car. II.

Hastings.

EDWARD H. MARSHALL, M. A.

"LABORARE EST ORARE" (6th S. xi. 267, 477).— It may be worth noting that on March 7, 1867, I exhibited at a meeting of the Society of Antiquaries an impression of a seal which is thus described in the Proceedings:

"Mr. Peacock......exhibited an impression from a medieval seal found about forty years since at Crossly, in the parish of Frodingham, co. Lincoln. The original was of a pointed oval form, 11 inches long, and made of silver, inclosing an antique intaglio. The metal was inscribed in characters of the thirteenth century + QUI LABORAT MANDVCET. The gem represented a male figure in his right two ears of corn. This may be a representa standing, holding up in his left hand a patera with fruit, tion of Autumnus."-2nd series, vol. iii. p. 451.

SIR EVERARD HOME (6th S. xi. 429).-Sir Everard Home was not "a celebrated physician," but a well-known surgeon. He was a son of Robert Home, of Greenlaw Castle, co. Berwick, surgeon to Burgoyne's Light Horse, and grandson of William Home, of Greenlaw Castle, by a daughter of Sir Alexander Purves, of Purves Hall. He was educated at Westminster School, where he obtained an exhibition to the University of Cambridge, which he resigned to commence his professional education under the celebrated John Hunter, who had married his sister.

He was

Hunter's pupil at St. George's Hospital, and upon his death in 1793 he became surgeon to that institution. In the early part of the century he was appointed sergeant-surgeon. In 1813 he was created a baronet (as of Well Manor Farm), and subsequently he was appointed surgeon to Chelsea College or Hospital-an appointment now done away with-and there, in his official residence, he died on August 31, 1832, aged seventy-six, and lies in the burial ground of that institution, next to the celebrated surgeon Cheselden, also surgeon to the hospital. When the Duke of Cumberland had been wounded by Sellis in the attempt to assassinate his royal highness Home attended the Duke. He then became acquainted with George IV., was afterwards much at Carlton House, and was treated with much familiarity by the king. Over the latter part of Sir Everard Home's life there passed a cloud connected with the destruction of some of John Hunter's MSS. He was on intimate terms with Sir Joseph Banks whilst President of the Royal Society, and it is said that there are printed in the Transactions of that Society more communications by him than by any other Fellow since the Society was established. A further history of Sir Everard Home will be found in the autobiography of his pupil Sir Benjamin Brodie. His son, Sir James Everard Home, R. N., also of Well Manor Farm, died at Sydney of paralysis on November 2, 1853, whilst in command of H. M.S. Calliope, when the baronetcy became extinct. His younger brother, a clergyman, died before him; he left four sisters, three of them married. I can recollect seeing both Sir Everards.

CHARLES HAWKINS.

Sir Everard Home (born in 1756) was the son of Robert Home, of Greenlaw Castle, Berwick, a practitioner of merit. In 1792 he married Jane, daughter and coheiress of the Rev. Dr. Tunstall, relict of Stephen Thompson, Esq., surgeon-general to the army, by whom he had two sons and four daughters. He was created a baronet in 1813, and was appointed sergeant-surgeon to George III. He died on August 31, 1832, when he was succeeded by his son, Sir James Everard Home, of Well Manor Farm, captain R. N., born 1798, and died at Sydney, N.S.W., on November 2, 1853 (not 1854), when in command of H.M.S. Calliope. I can furnish MR. FRATER with a copy of the family arms from Berry's Heraldry should he require it. EVERARD HOME COLEMAN.

71, Brecknock Road.

It is stated in the Gent. Mag., vol. cii. pt. ii. P. 385, that "Sir Everard married, in 1792, Jane, and widow of Stephen Thompson, Esq., by whom daughter and coheiress of the Rev. Dr. Tunstall, he had two sons and four daughters: 1. Sir James Everard Home, who has succeeded to the title; he was born in 1798, and is a captain R.N.," &c. Upon the death of Sir James Everard Home, of Well Manor Farm, on November 2, 1853, the title became extinct. See Sir B. Burke's Peerage and first baronet is described as William Home, Esq, Baronetage (1857), where the grandfather of the of Greenlaw Castle, co. Berwick. According to Mr. Solly's Index of Hereditary Titles of Honour the title became extinct in 1832, upon failure of issue, but this is evidently a slip of the pen.

G. F. R. B.

THE HEDGEHOG IN THE CARVINGS OF AMIENS CATHEDRAL (6th S. xi. 428).-This is the third in a series of four medallions relating to the prophecies of Zephaniah, which are explained as follows by M. de Caumont :

"Les quatre médallions qui suivent se rapportent au prophète Sophonie. Dans le premier, le Seigneur visite Jérusalem la lumière à la main (ch. i. ver. 12); dans le second, le Seigneur étend sa main sur Juda et sur les habitants de Jérusalem (id., ver. 4 et 8); dans le troisième, le hérisson demeure dans les maisons et le corbeau sur le linteau (ch. ii. ver. 14); dans le quatrième, les troupeaux et toutes les bêtes des nations couchent au milieu d'Assur (ibid.)."-Abécédaire ou Rudiment d'Archéologie (Architecture Religieuse), p. 367 (Paris, 1854). There are engravings of the four medallions. The translation in the Vulgate is

"Et accubabunt in medio ejus greges, omnes bestia gentium: et onocrotalus et ericius in liminibus ejus morabuntur; vox cantantis in fenestra, corvus in superliminari, quoniam attenuabo robur ejus." The Geneva Version has "owl" in the text, with or hedgehog " in the margin, and the Septuagint ἐχίνοι. According to Mr. Ruskin (Our Fathers have told Us, pt. i. pp. 181, 195) the representation of the

ED. MARSHALL.

hedgehog and bittern in the carvings at Amiens Cathedral has reference to the Septuagint rendering of Zephaniah ii. 14. The Authorized Version gives cormorant [marg. pelican] and bittern "; "Both the cormorant and bittern shall lodge in the upper lintels of it; their voice shall sing in the windows"; and the revisers have it, "Both the pelican and the porcupine shall lodge in the chapiters thereof their voice shall sing in the windows." DR. HARDMAN has mistaken for a castle or cathedral a caged bird singing in a window. ST. SWITHIN.

Intended to illustrate one of a set of prophecies' the Gothic building probably representing Nineveh: "onocratalus et ericius in liminibus ejus morabuntur" (Zeph. ii. 14, Vulg.). See also 18. xiv. 23; xxxiv. 11, 15, in the Vulgate. J. T. F.

Bishop Hatfield's Hall, Durham.

In connexion with DR. HARDMAN'S query it may be worth mentioning that there is, or was some ten years ago, a hedgehog carved on one of the misereres in Cartmell Church. I think it is on the left side.

EDWARD PEACOCK.

INSCRIBED STONE AT HAYLE (6th S. xi. 248, 335, 436).-As yet the correct text of this inscription has not been given. Two versions have appeared with variations, so that the difficulty of dealing with it is increased. The word, however, which SIR H. MAXWELL has objected to my altering being the same in each, may be supposed to be a true copy of that on the stone, and I therefore must call it a "mistake" instead of a "misprint," as the stonecutter, and not the printer, has been guilty of an erratum. This during the early Welsh period may have been "the almost invariable form" of the word; but if this repeated blunder makes it good Latin, then many a schoolboy has been whipped without justice. If

"Not all that heralds rake from coffin'd clay
Nor florid prose, nor honied lies of rhyme,

Can blazon evil deeds, or consecrate a crime," neither can any series of blunders make corrupt Latin into that of which Priscian would approve. Nay, our old friend Piers Plowman goes further, and says,

"A charter is chalangable by-fore a chief Justice
Yf fals latyn be in that lettere,"

Text C. pass. xiv. 117. In corroboration of the Welsh practice of miswriting this word there are some engraved stones in Borlase's Antiquities of Cornwall which exhibit the same mistake-jacit for "jacet." Research, however, having to interpret as well as to discover and record, must relentlessly read them all into correct form, although the inscription must be left unaltered on the stone itself, the very error being evidence of genuine antiquity. In my former reply I suggested that DO. might have been a mis

REFORMED BREVIARY OF CARDINAL QUIGNON (6th S. xi. 448).-The reformed Breviary of Cardinal Quignon was published almost at the same time, in the spring of 1535, at Rome and Venice, with the imprimatur of Paul III. Other issues appeared in the following year at Paris, and possibly at Antwerp. A copy of the Roman edition may be seen at the Bibliotheca Angelica at Rome. A copy of the Venetian edition is in my own possession, and a copy of the Paris edition is in the well-known library of the Rev. W. J. Blew. The issues of the second edition from 1536 to 1568 appear to be very numerous. I have found no difference in the distribution of the Psalter in any of the copies of the first and second edition that I have yet examined.

Of the second edition, some of the issues vary enough to constitute an edition by themselves. Some of those printed at Antwerp after 1561 have arguments to the Psalms; e. g., those of Plantin, 1561, and Stelsius, 1563 and 1566. These arguments, Plantin himself tells us, in a note printed on the reverse of the title-page of his edition in 1561, are taken from Ludolph of Saxony: ex Ludolpho Cartusiano, non de cujuslibet, sed de cujusdam primæ notæ et authoritatis viri judicio." The edition printed, according to the title-page, at Pesaro in 1564, but, according to the colophon, in 1566, is divided, contrary to the Quignonian custom, into a pars hyemalis and a pars æstivalis. Lessons for the fifth week of the Dominica vagantes are given instead of for the twenty-fourth Sunday after Pentecost, and the Index Vagantium runs up to 1598. There are other differences also in the distributions of the lessons.

For some time past I have been amusing my leisure with the study of this curious Breviary, certainly the forerunner of the Matins and Evensong of the Book of Common Prayer. In the course of the next twelvemonth I hope to bring out a reprint of the copy of the first edition that I possess, collated with the later editions belonging

J. WICKHAM LEGG.

LORD MAYORS WHO HAVE DIED DURING THEIR MAYORALTY (6th S. xi. 340, 463, 510).—Allow me to testify to the correctness of NEMO's dates. So long as the electoral year is not strictly adhered to this confusion will arise. Heylin is not singular in falling into this mistake; Strype also has tripped, and from 1634 to 1720 is consequently a year in arrear by the insertion of Moulson for the former year. True, he was elected in 1634, but only for the remainder of Freman's time-a good proof that these remainders should bear the original year-date. I have for some time been engaged in making a correct list of the years of the mayoralties, and have completed one. My information regarding the years quoted by D. G. C. E. is derived from a set of twenty volumes of cuttings, laboriously compiled, and presented to the Corporation by the late Mr. Hartridge. They are, perhaps, the most extraordinary monument of their kind, of time and patience, ever completed. As I said, they are in twenty volumes-vol. ix., "Lord Mayors," vol. x., "Aldermen," illustrated with portraits. I have, unfortunately, omitted to note the exact title, but reference to fourteenth supplement, p. 2, of the Guildhall Catalogue will readily find them, and a visit to look at them will equally surprise and delight. JOHN J. STOCKEN.

earlier than 1601 are included in the volume, which has more than five hundred pages. As in the previous volume, Mr. Sinker adopts the system of grouping the books under towns first, and subsequently under printers. At the head of each town is given the earliest recorded printers or booksellers are arranged chronologically, date at which printing was practised therein. The and the same rule is followed in the order of them. Cross references are supplied when names of both printer and bookseller are given, and in some other cases. This disposition, supplemented as it is by copious indexes of towns, books, and printers, is, perhaps, as convenient as desired to find a description of the Golden Legend of any that can be adopted. Suppose, for instance, it is Jacques de Voragine, a reference to the name of the author or of the book is sufficient. If both title and author are forgotten, from the name of the printer or that of the town the information is obtainable. The amount of information supplied depends upon what is already accessible. As a rule, however, every reference which is necessary for purposes of collation is given, and references to Herbert, Dibdin, the Catalogue of the Grenville Library in the British Museum, and other been the labour bestowed, and the result is in proporstandard works are added. Eminently painstaking has tion. Mr. Sinker's new volume needs no introduction to those familiar with the old. To the collector of early literature it is invaluable, and in every bibliographical collection it will have an honourable place. Introduction of the Art of Printing into Scotland. By Robert Dickson, F.S.A.Scot. (Aberdeen, Edmond & Spark).

To the researches of M. A. Claudin, known throughout the book-loving world as a paléographe and a bookseller, it is owing that the history of the introduction of printing into Scotland can be written. In the Typographical Gazetteer of Dr. Cotton it is stated, on the authority of

"If right the bard," &c. The lines, I am told, are in The Rolliad, "the best book," my informant adds, "so far as I know, which has become obsolete." FREDK. RULE.

(6th S. xi. 509.) "Oh, where are you going with love locks flowing," &c., is from the poem Amor Mundi, by Christina Rossetti, KATE THOMPSON.

Miscellaneous.

NOTES ON BOOKS, &c.

A Catalogue of the English Books Printed before MDCI. now in the Library of Trinity College, Cambridge. By Robert Sinker, B.D. (Cambridge, Deighton, Bell & Co.; London, G. Bell & Sons.) THE catalogue of fifteenth century books in the library of Trinity College issued nine years ago by the librarian is accepted as a trustworthy and important contribution to English bibliography. To this valued work a companion volume is now issued. In this Mr. Sinker includes all English books in the library printed before the close of the sixteenth century. The term English is fairly elastic. It is held, accordingly, to comprise all books in any language printed in England or Scotland, all books in the English language printed abroad, and all books printed abroad which, though in a foreign language, have "a distinct connexion with the English Church, history, or literature." By this method