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Notes and Queries, Number 79, May 3, 1851
A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.

Notes and Queries, Number 79, May 3, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.

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NOTES AND QUERIES:

A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION FOR LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES, GENEALOGISTS, ETC.


"When found, make a note of."—CAPTAIN CUTTLE.


No. 79.

Saturday, May 3. 1851.

Price Threepence.
Stamped Edition 4d.


CONTENTS.

Notes:—

Page

Illustrations of Chaucer, No. V.

345

Foreign English—Guide to Amsterdam

346

Seven Children at a Birth three Times following

347

Ramasshed, Meaning of the Term

347

Authors of the Poetry of the Anti-Jacobin, by E. Hawkins

348

Minor Notes:—Egg and Arrow Ornament—Defoe's Project for purifying the English Language—Great Fire of London—Noble or Workhouse Names

349

Queries:—

Passages in the New Testament illustrated from Demosthenes

350

The House of Maillé

351

Minor Queries:— Meaning of "eign"—The Bonny Crayat—What was the Day of the Accession of Richard the Third?—Lucas Family—Watch of Richard Whiting—Laurence Howel, the Original Pilgrim—Churchwardens' Accounts, &c. of St. Mary-de-Castro, Leicester—Aristotle and Pythagoras—When Deans first styled Very Reverend—Form of Prayer at the Healing—West Chester—The Milesians—Round Robbin—Experto credo Roberto—Captain Howe—Bactria

351

Replies:—

The Family of the Tradescants, by Dr. E. F. Rimbault

353

Meaning of Venville, by E. Smirke

355

Replies to Minor Queries:—Newburgh Hamilton—Pedigree of Owen Glendower—Mind your P's and Q's—The Sempecta at Croyland—Solid-hoofed Pigs—Porci solide-pedes—Sir Henry Slingsby's Diary—Criston, Somerset—Tradesmen's Signs—Emendation of a Passage in Virgil

356

Miscellaneous:—

Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, &c.

358

Books and Odd Volumes wanted

358

Notices to Correspondents

358

Advertisements

359


Notes.

ILLUSTRATIONS OF CHAUCER NO. V.

The Arke of Artificial Day.

Before proceeding, to point out the indelible marks by which Chaucer has, as it were, stereotyped the true date of the journey to Canterbury, I shall clear away another stumbling-block, still more insurmountable to Tyrwhitt than his first difficulty of the "halfe cours" in Aries, viz. the seeming inconsistency in statements (1.) and (2.) in the following lines of the prologue to the Man of Lawe's tale:—

(1.) Brace "Oure hoste saw wel that the bright sonne,
 The arke of his artificial day, had ironne
 The fourthe part and halfe an houre and more,
             *            *            *            *
(2.) brace  And saw wel that the shadow of every tree
 Was as in length of the same quantitie,
 That was the body erecte that caused it,
 And therefore by the shadow he toke his wit
 That Phebus, which that shone so clere and bright,
 Degrees was five and fourty clombe on hight,
 And for that day, as in that latitude
 It was ten of the clok, he gan conclude."

The difficulty will be best explained in Tyrwhitt's own words:—

"Unfortunately, however, this description, though seemingly intended to be so accurate, will neither enable us to conclude with the MSS. that it was 'ten of the clock,' nor to fix upon any other hour; as the two circumstances just mentioned are not found to coincide in any

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