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WM. EWART.
University Club.
These curious materials for history are in the rough and confused state in which they were left by their author, and, to render them available, would require an index to the whole.
The "Remembrances" are in some degree illustrated by Harl. MS. 604., which is a very curious volume of monastic affairs at the dissolution. Also by 605, 606, and 607. The last two belong to the reign of Philip and Mary, and contain an official account of the lands sold by them belonging to the crown in the third and fourth years of their reign.
E. G. BALLARD.
L. M. M. R.
JOSEPH DAVEY.
Queries.
"THE LIGHT OF BRITTAINE."
I should be glad, through the medium of "N. & Q.," to be favoured with some particulars regarding this work, and its author, Maister Henry Lyte, of Lytescarie, Esq. He presented the said work with his own hand to "our late soveraigne queene and matchlesse mistresse, on the day when shee came, in royall manner, to Paule's Church." I shall also be glad of any information about his son, Maister Thomas Lyte, of Lytescarie, Esq., "a true immitator and heyre to his father's vertues," and who
These two works appear to have been written towards the close of the sixteenth century. Is anything more known of them, and their respective authors?
TRAJA-NOVA.
Minor Queries.
A. C.
"I saw a man, who saw a man, who said he saw the king."
Whence?
Whence?
A. A. D.
As the author professes the poem to be "in the ancient English style," are these words veritable ancient English? If so, some correspondent of "N. & Q." may perhaps be able to give instances of their recurrence.
ROBERT WRIGHT.
T. W. N.
Malta.
"A Joabi Alloquio, A Thyestis Convivio, Ab Iscariotis 'Ave,' A Diasii 'Salve' Ab Herodis 'Redite' A Gallorum 'Venite.' Libera nos Domine."
The fourth and sixth line I do not understand.
B. H. C.
CAPE.
CEYREP.
"I cannot omit the sacrilege and punishment of King John, who in the seventeenth year of his reign, among other churches, rifled the abbeys of Peterborough and Croyland, and after attempts to carry his sacrilegious wealth from Lynn to Lincoln; but, passing the Washes, the earth in the midst of the waters opens her mouth , and at once swallows up both carts, carriage, and horses, all his treasure, all his regalities, all his church spoil, and all the church spoilers; not one escapes to bring the king word," &c.
Is the precise spot known where this catastrophe occurred, or have any relics been since recovered to give evidence of the fact?
J. SANSOM.
"Elementa sex me proferent totam tibi; Totam hanc, lucernis si tepent fungi, vides, Accisa senibus suppetit saltantibus, Levetur, armis adfremunt Horatii; Facienda res est omnibus, si fit minor, Es, quod relinquis deinde, si subtraxeris; Si rite tandem quaeritas originem, Ad sibilum, vix ad sonum, reverteris."
EFFIGY.
"Let Jack nor Gill Fetch corn at will."
Can the "Jack and Gill" of our nursery tales be traced to an earlier date than Tusser's time?
L. A. M.
T. HUGHES.
Chester.
J. H. MARKLAND.
Bath.
Than the allegations that Butler died with a Roman Catholic book of devotion in his hand, and that the last person in whose company he was seen was a priest of that persuasion, nothing can be more unreasonable, if at least it be meant to deduce from these unproved statements that the bishop agreed with the one and held communion with the other. Dr. Forster, his chaplain, was with him at his death, which happened about 11 A.M., June 16; and this witness observes that "the last four-and-twenty hours preceding which were divided between short broken slumbers, and intervals of a calm but disordered talk when awake." Again , Forster says that Bishop Butler, "when, for a day or two before his death, he had in a great measure lost the use of his faculties, was perpetually talking of writing to your lordship, though without seeming to have anything which, at least, he was at all capable of communicating to you." Bishop Benson writes to the Bishop of Oxford that Butler's "attention to any one or anything is immediately lost and gone;" and, "my lord is incapable, not only of reading, but attending to anything read or said." And again, "his attention to anything is very little or none."
J. R. C.
MITIGATION OF CAPITAL PUNISHMENT TO FORGERS.
I have asked many questions, and turned over many volumes and files of newspapers, to get at the real facts of the cases of mitigation stated in "N. & Q." Having winnowed the chaff as thoroughly as I could, I send the very few grains I have found. Those only who have searched annual registers, magazines, and journals for the foundation of stories defective in names and dates, will appreciate my difficulties.
The case occurred in 1802 or 1803, when WHUNSIDE was a pupil of Mr. Fawcett. He says:
The reader will sift this jumble of inferences and facts, and perhaps will not go so far as to have "no doubt."
H. B. C.
U. U. Club.
MYTHE VERSUS MYTH.
MR. KEIGHTLEY'S rule is only partially true, and in the part which is true is not fully stated. The following rules, qualified by the accompanying remarks, will I trust be found substantially correct.
English monosyllables, formed from Greek or Latin monosyllabic roots,
When the root ends in a single consonant preceded by a vowel, require the lengthening e.
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