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The earliest date of its colloquial use as yet recorded in "NOTES AND QUERIES," is A.D. 1513: on the other hand, the word, so far as I am aware, is nowhere used by Chaucer, although his near approach to it in the following lines is very remarkable:
After this, the transition to the word itself is so extremely easy, that it could not be far distant.
A. E. B.
"Kentish true blue; Take this as a token, That what is said here Under the rose is spoken."
It is now, or was when I saw it, in the hall of that ancient mansion, but I believe had been brought from an old house in the neighbourhood.
E. H. Y.
Queries.
PORTRAITS OF SPENSER.
The engraved portraits of Spenser differ so much from each other as to throw doubts on their resemblance to the poet.
I have now before me the following:
The writer thinks he recollects a law-suit relative to a portrait of the poet, which had been sold to the late Sir Robert Peel, and which was stated to have come from Ireland. Perhaps some of your readers could give information respecting this picture.
It is clear, if the first three are all from the Chesterfield original, that this painting, and the one from which Mr. Pickering's is taken, cannot both be portraits of Spenser. The object of this Query is to ascertain, if possible, which engraving, or class of engravings, resembles the poet.
E. M. B.
THE VENDACE.
Mr. Stewart describes the fish, but from his description it is evident he has never seen it. The following one is exact:--
Dr. Knox, sometime Lecturer upon Anatomy in Edinburgh, states:
"That he has not only discovered the food of the Vendace, but actually exhibited it before the Members of the Royal Society, and offers suggestions for the stocking of the various lakes in Britain with this exquisite fish; pointing out first the necessity of locating its natural food, without which it cannot live."
In the preceding account, I have followed the Rev. John Gardiner of Lochmaben, who, in 1835, drew up an admirable account of his parish, which is inserted in the statistical survey of the county.
JARLTZBERG.
Minor Queries.
H. H.
"To-day we purpose, ay, this hour we mount To spur three leagues towards the Apennine; Come down, we pray thee, ere the hot sun count His dewy rosary on the eglantine"
G. N.
"Here slepes my babe in silence, heauen's his rest, For God takes soonest those he loueth best."
T. H. K.
Malew, Man.
B. S. S.
J. D.
"Et omnia placita de leporibus, rechibus, heymectis, tessonibus, vulpibus, murilegis, et perdricibus:"
which I translate--
"And all pleas concerning hares, traps, hedgehogs, badgers, foxes, wild-cats, and partridges:"
but I confess I have no confidence in some of these words, as the glossaries in the British Museum Library fail to explain them. I therefore solicit your courteous assistance.
JAMES WAYLEN.
If no positive information can be afforded, yet a clue to where it might be sought for would oblige.
GENEALOGICUS LANCASTRIENSIS.
If not, the word "skort" must have some other meaning which I am unacquainted with. I cannot find it at all in Halliwell, the only authority I have at hand to refer to.
ROVERT.
Can any one substantiate the local tradition the Endymion Porter was born at the manor-house of Aston Subedge, in Gloucestershire; or furnish any particulars of his life before he became gentleman of the bedchamber to Prince Charles?
BALLIOLENSIS.
F. T. C.
"Roundheads bragge not, since 'tis an old decree, In time to come from chaines wee should be free: Traytors shall rule, Injustice then shall sway, Subjects and nephewes shall their king betray; And he himselfe, O most unhappy fate! For kings' examples, kingdomes imitate: What he maintain'd, I know it was not good, Brought in by force, and out shall goe by blood," &c.
It occupies about thirty lines more. At the bottom of the title, and at the conclusion of the postscript, it has merely the initials S. D. Could any of your worthy correspondents inform me who S. D. was?
The MS. is evidently cotemporary, and, according to the introduction, was "ordered to be forthwith published, .;" and as I cannot trace that such a production was ever issued, the answer would confer a favour on
C. HAMILTON.
City Road, April 1. 1851.
J. B.
Minor Queries Answered.
"A Letter sent from a worthy Divine, to the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor of the City of London. Being a true relation of the battaile fought betweene His Majesty and his Excellence the Earle of Essex. From Warwicke Castle, the 24. of October, 1642, at two a clock in the morning. Together with a Prayer for the happy uniting of the King and parliament, fit to be used by all good Christians, daily in their houses. London, Octob. 27. Printed for Robert Wood. 1642."
The above is the title of a tract now in my possession. Is it known to any collector of tracts relating to the Battle of Edgehill? Who was the "worthy divine," the writer?
P. Q.
JOHN VINCENT LYSTER.
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