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 10 s. XL MAY is, 1909.] NOTES AND QUERIES.

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LONDON, SATURDAY, MAY !'>, 1909.

CONTENTS.-No. 281.

NOTES : Rogation Days : Ascension Day : Whitsuntide, 381 _ Cotton Family of Warbleton, 382 ' Englands Parnassus,' 3S3 Beating the Bounds in 1763 Proper Names in Grieb-Schroer, 384 "The Ivery," Wiltshire Local Name Bagnigge House "Q in the Corner" ' ' Disalder," 385 " Lumber "=Trouble Yello whaminer Superstitions "Leaguer," 386.

OUERIES : Beckford Queries Witchcraft Bibliography- Ladies' Cricket Matches, 386 James Isaacson, M.P. Authors Wanted Welsh and Tudor Heraldry Royal Burghs, 387" Storm in a teacup "Milton and Hackney Sir Jauies Montagu Archbishop Neile Goose with One Leg' Le Matin de la Vie 'Pronunciation of Cheyne Partrendune, Bucks De Quincey Quotations, 388 Timothy Loker " Under a cloud" Sir C. Malet in Poona ' Metrical Effusions ' ' Nouveaux Tableaux de Famille," 389.

REPLIES : Oliver Cromwell's Head, 389 St. Mary the Egyptian, 390 H. M.S. Calliope, 391 Etymology of "Liverpool," 391 Sainte-Beuve on Castor and Pollux 93, Pall Mall Sir Thomas Warner's Tombstone, 392 Sir T. Warner of Antigua Grindleton Nancy Day, 393 Jews in Fiction The Crucified Thieves, 394 Holt Castle Pronunciation of " Realm " " Hawser " : " Haul " . " The Wooset," 395 Worksop Epitaphs Bishop Sampson John Clayton Stuart, Earl of Traquair " Squad "= Mud Oxen drawing Carriages " Tha' woodin image," 396 Abraham Lincoln and ' Mortality ' Bells Rung Backwards Carstares Nanny Natty Cote Lucy Locket Lady's Heraldic Motto, 397 Books on Place-Names ^Esop's Fables,' 1821, 398.

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ROGATION DAYS : ASCENSION DAY :

WHITSUNTIDE. (Continued from 10 S. ix. 401.)

AT Ripon a dragon was carried in pro- fession on the three Rogation days, 1439 And later, but he had dropped out before 1540. St. Wilfrid's relics were also carried (1393), and a tent was pitched in the fields for their protection. See ' Memorials of Ripon' (Surt. Ixxxi), iii. 2, 120, 234, 239, 287. Some useful notes are added on p. 234.

1481. The perambulation of the boun- daries of the liberty and lordship of Ripon, "" in septimana Pentecostes," is described at length in ' Ripon Chapter Acts,' Surt. Soc. Ixiv. 337-48 ; and in a note, p. 337, a perambulation of the same on one of the Rogation days in 1795.

The processions at Rogation-tide, Ascen- sion-tide, and Whitsuntide are described, with notes, in ' Rites of Durham,' Surt. cvii. pp. 104, 105, 287.

1562. The Elizabethan book of ' Homilies ' contains one for the days of Rogation week, in three parts, and " An Exhortation, to be spoken to such parishes where they use their Perambulation in Rogation Week ; for the

oversight of the bounds and limits of their town." Herein complaint is made of the removal of " doles and marks which of ancient time were laid for the division of meers and balks in the fields," and of the turning up of " the ancient terries of the fields that old men beforetime with great pains did tread out," of covetous men plough- ing up so nigh the common balks and walks, and destroying the ancient " bier-balks, which by long use and custom " had been left in the lands " to carry the corpse to the Christian sepulchre," &c.

1592. " Breade and drinke " were pro- vided for those who went to view the " bounders " of Pittington parish on Roga- tion Wednesday. In 1670 and later St. Nicholas's, Durham, was decorated with branches of birch at Whitsuntide ( ' Durham Parish Books,' Surt. Ixxxiv. 33, 228n.).

Shakespeare mentions the " pageants of delight " which were played "at Pentecost," ' Two Gentlemen of Verona,' IV. iv. ; the " Whitsun morris-dance," ' K. Henry V.,' II. iv. ; the " monster " usually " pre- sented " in the " pageant," ' Troilus and Cressida,' III. ii. ; and the " play " of the " Whitsun pastorals," ' Winter's Tale,' IV. iii.

1635. An account of the annual per- ambulation of the parish of St. Giles, Durham, on Ascension Day, with notes, is in ' Memorials of St. Giles's,' Surt. xcv. 2-8.

Compare with these processions that of Charlemagne at Aix-la-Chapelle in 1740. He was represented by a pasteboard figure, 12 feet high, wearing a curled and powdered full-bottomed wig, on which was an imperial crown, and dressed in a yellow damask gown which hid those who carried him. He goes round the city, attended by all the orders in their habits, the magistrates, and the Host under a canopy. They stop before the town-house, mass is said at an altar raised on purpose, and Charlemagne stoops and " goggles " his eyes, which are pulled by wires (Climenson, ' Elizabeth Montagu,' 1906, i. 59).

There is a notice of the Rogation dragon in Hone's 'Ancient Mysteries,' p. 134, and of the Whitsuntide dragon at Tarascon in Dumas, ' Travel in S. France,' p. 213.

The Ascension Day procession is described by F. Hamilton Jackson, ' Shores of Adriatic, Austrian Side,' 1908, pp. 390-91.

There were no sittings in Westminster Hall on Ascension Day, 1796 (9 S. vii. 26).

' Whitsuntide Perambulations,' an article in The Church Times, 22 May, 1908, p. 898.

See under ' Rogation ' in ' N.E.D.' for some useful quotations. W. C. B.