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LONDON, SATURDAY, MAY b, 1907.

CONTENTS.-No. 175.

EMOTES : St. Theobald, 341 Malclon Records and the Drama, 342 Lodge Hill, Harengeye, 343 Free Society of Artists Polly Kennedy : Polly Jones, 344 De Quincey and Animal Magnetism " Beitzmer "= Irishman "Kid- napper," 345 Earthquakes and Mont Pelee "Hogs- head": its Derivation Forsythia suspensa Hunter's Wood: Hunter's Cakes, 346 Ghost- Words " Drug " and " Pharmacopoeia " in the 'N.E.D.,' 347.

(QUERIES : Engineers' Portraits Marshall's ' Genea- logist's Guide ' : a Supplement Lewis, Friend of Jack Mytton Charters to City Guilds Badges of the City Guilds, 347 Sulphur Matches: Match-maker's Song " Matross " : " Topass" ' Intelligence,' J. Macock, 1666 Imperial Phrases Seine, River and Saint Chalmers of 'Cults ' An Evening Star' Dr. Johnson : Dr. John Swan : Dr. Watts, 348 Napoleon's Chessmen ' Lincolnshire Family's Chequered History ' : Walsh Family ' The Peri ; or, the Enchanted Fountain 'Lieut. J. H. Davis Poll- Books, 349 Whitlas of Gobrana, co. Antrim House of Bentham and James Mill, 350.

HEPLIES : Hannah Lightfoot : aPortrait, 350" Matches" in Congreve, 351 Marly Horses Naval Action, 1814 : T. Barratt Power 'Rebecca,' a Novel: A. C. Holbrook, 352 " Hammals," 353 "Road of words" "Non sentis, inquit, te ultra mallemn loqui ? " Edinburgh Stage : Bland : Glover : Jordan, 354 Hurstmonceaux : its Pro- nunciation Pacolet Charles Lamb on Thicknesse's ' France ' " Portobello " Lunar Halo and Rain Ausone de Chancel, 355 Echidna " Ulidia," House Motto, 356 Flora Macdonald ' The Fruits of Endowments 'Joseph Bonaparte's Carriage A Linguistic Curiosity Lyttons at Knebworth, 357.

NOTES ON BOOKS : ' Heraldry Explained ' ' Descrip- tive Catalogue of Derbyshire Charters ' Sidney's ' Ar- cadia' 'The Pocket Plato.'

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ST. THEOBALD.

IN 1391 Pope Boniface IX. granted an indulgence of three years and three quaran- tines to all who on certain specified days, including the feast of St. Theobald, visited, or gave alms to, the parish church of ,St. George at West Harnham, Wilts, at which St. Theobald, confessor, was venerated (' Calendar Papal Letters,' iv. 356 ; cf. p. 442).

Who was this St. Theobald ?

Probably one of the two of this name formally canonized, viz., 1. St. Theobald, or Ubald, Bishop of Gubbio, in Umbria ; 2. St. Theobald of Provins.

1. As to St. Theobald of Gubbio, the Roman Missal and Breviary and Alban Butler recognize him only as St. Ubald. He died on 16 May, 1160, and on this day St. Ubald's feast is kept as a semi-double throughout the Catholic Church, and as a higher festival at Gubbio. As St. Theobald, hisjieast is kept with great solemnity at the magnificent Gothic church, dedicated in his honour, at Thann, in Alsace, to which place, as the story goes, his servant, soon after his death, brought his thumb and pastoral ring.

He was canonized by Celestin III. in 1192. He probably gave his name to the villages of St. Thibault (Aisne) and St. Thiebaud (Jura).

2. St. Theobald of Provins, born in 1017, is generally said to have become a Camal- dolese monk of the Abbey of Vangadizza, near Verona. Some authorities, however, differentiate St. Theobald of Provins from the Camaldolese St. Theobald, and assert that the latter was an Abbot of Van- gadizza who died in 1050. However this may be, St. Theobald of Provins lived for many years the life of a hermit in the diocese of Vicenza, and probably also lived in the diocese of Adria, in Venetia, as he is said to have been specially honoured at Badia Polesine, in the latter diocese. He died on 30 June in or about the year 1066, but his feast was variously kept on the 1st or 4th of July. He was canonized by Alexander III. in 1175. His relics, or most of them, were at a very early date taken to France, and there very widely distributed. He seems to have given his name to the villages of St. Thibault (Aube), St. Thie- bault (Haute -Marne), St. Thibault - les - Vignes (Seine-et-Marne), and St. Thibault (Cote d'Or), and to a portion of the village of St. Satur (Cher) known by the same name. He was also venerated at Mesgrigny and St. Leger-sous-Brienne, both in the depart- ment of Aube.

At 2 S. xi. 269 LORD COURTNEY, writing on the subject of St. Tib's Eve as a synonym of " never," would seem to refer to this St. Theobald when he says : "I find St. Theobald's Day is the 1st July, and appa- rently lacks an eve." Is there any evidence that any St. Theobald's Day was ever observed in any English diocese on the 1st of July or any other day ? As to saints' days and eves, the present rule is that only " doubles " have eves. The differentiation of days into doubles, semi-doubles, and simples apparently dates from the thirteenth century ; but it is improbable that even in earlier times every saint's day had its eve. St. Tib's Eve has been discussed in other volumes of ' N. & Q.' also, and I do not wish to revive the discussion, but merely desire to point out the improbability of the phrase, which is an English one, having any reference to any St. Theobald, as suggested by LORD COURTNEY. If the ordinarily accepted deri- vation from St. Ube's Eve be wrong, it is on the whole far more probable that the phrase is connected with St. Tibba, a virgin, whose day was observed at Peterborough on 6 March.