: Notes and Queries Number 192 July 2 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men Artists Antiquaries Genealogists etc. by Various - Questions and answers Periodicals Notes and Queries

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MINOR NOTES:--Burial in an Erect Posture--The Archbishop of Armagh's Cure for the Gout, 1571--The last known Survivor of General Wolfe's Army in Canada--National Methods of applauding--Curious Posthumous Occurrence 5

QUERIES:-- Did Captain Cook first discover the Sandwich Islands? by J. S. Warden 6 Superstition of the Cornish Miners 7

MINOR QUERIES:--Clerical Duel--Pistol--Council of Laodicea, Canon 35.--Pennycomequick, adjoining Plymouth--Park the Antiquary--Honorary D.C.L.'s-- Battle of Villers en Couch?--Dr. Misaubin--Kemble, Willet, and Forbes--Piccalyly--Post-Office about 1770--"Carefully examined and well-authenticated"-- Sir Heister Ryley--Effigies with folded Hands 7

MINOR QUERIES WITH ANSWERS:--Passage in Bishop Horsley--"Marry come up!"--Dover Court-- Porter--Dr. Whitaker's ingenious Earl--Dissimulate 9

REPLIES:-- Bishop Ken, by the Rev. J. H. Markland 10 Bohn's Edition of Hoveden, by James Graves 11 Coleridge's Christabel, by J. S. Warden 11 Its 12 Family of Milton's Widow, by T. Hughes 12 Books of Emblems--Jacob Behmen, by C. Mansfield Ingleby 13 Raffaelle's Sposalizio 14 Windfall 14 Mr. Justice Newton, by the Rev. H. T. Ellacombe and F. Kyffin Lenthall 15

PHOTOGRAPHIC CORRESPONDENCE:--Mr. Lyte's Treatment of Positives--Stereoscopic Angles--Query respecting Mr. Pollock's Process--Gallo-nitrate of Silver 15

REPLIES TO MINOR QUERIES:--Verney Note decyphered--Emblems by John Bunyan--Mr. Cobb's Diary--"Sat cito si sat bene"--Mythe versus Myth--The Gilbert Family--Alexander Clark--Christ's Cross--The Rebellious Prayer--"To the Lords of Convention"-- Wooden Tombs and Effigies--Lord Clarendon and the Tubwoman--House-marks--"Amentium haud amantium"-- The Megatherium in the British Museum--Pictorial Proverbs--"Hurrah," and other War-cries 17

MISCELLANEOUS:-- Notes on Books, &c. 20 Books and Odd Volumes wanted 21 Notices to Correspondents 21 Advertisements 21

Notes.

OBLATION OF A WHITE BULL.

If we are to understand a white bull of the ancient race of wild white cattle, it may be inferred, I suppose, that in some forest in the vicinity of Bury St. Edmund's they had not disappeared in the first half of the sixteenth century. The wild cattle, probably indigenous to the great Caledonian forest, seem to have become extinct in a wild state before the time of Leland, excepting where preserved in certain ancient parks, as Chillingham Park, Northumberland, Gisburne Park in Craven, &c., where they were, and in the former at all events still are, maintained in their original purity of breed. They were preserved on the lands of some abbeys; for instance, by the Abbats of Whalley, Lancashire.

Whitaker mentions Gisburne Park as chiefly remarkable for a herd of wild cattle, descendants of that indigenous race which once roamed in the great forests of Lancashire, and they are said by some other writer to have been originally brought to Gisburne from Whalley after the dissolution. One of the descendants of Robert de Brus, the founder of Gainsborough Priory, is stated by Matthew Paris to have conciliated King John with a present of white cattle. The woods of Chillingham Castle are celebrated at this day for the breed of this remarkable race, by which they are inhabited; and I believe there are three or four other places in which they are preserved.

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