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 NOTES AND QUERIES.

[2nd s. N 14., APRIL 5. '56.

for March 14, relates to the opening of the Lin- coln Lent Assizes for 1856 :

" He (Lord Campbell) began his official duties as judge in that city, six years ago ; and now, for the third time during that period, he had presided at a maiden assize. On each occasion he had been presented with a pair of white gloves, as a token of the innocence of the city, and he should again gladly claim them, knowing that so pleasing a claim would not be made in vain. The City Sheriff (Mr. W. Kirk) then rose and presented his lord- ship with an 'elegant pair of white gloves, beautifully em- broidered and ornamented with Brussels lace, and having the city arms embossed in frosted silver on the back of each glove."

This custom has already been mentioned in the folk lore of " N. & Q. ;" but the above extract deserves notice on account of the decorations of the gloves. CUTUBEET BEDE.

The Atmospheric Railroad Anticipated.

First Voice.

u But -why drives on that ship so fast, Without or wave or wind ? "

Second Voice.

" The air is cut away before, And closes from behind."

The Ancient Mariner.

This is the exact principle of the atmospheric railroad ; and it is perhaps worthy of a Note as a curious fact, that such a means of locomotion should have occurred to Coleridge so long ago.

W. J. BEBNHABD SMITH.

Temple.

Nomina Apostolorum.

" Petnts et Andreas, Jacobus pariterque Johannes, Thomas et Jacobus, Phillippus, Bartholomeus, Matheus, Symon, Thadeus vnde Mathias."

From " The Chronicle of Fortergall," written circa 1560. Printed in The Black Book of Taymouth, with other Papers from the Breadal- bane Charter Room. Edinburgh : MDCCCLV. (Privately printed.)

A. G. Edinburgh.

THE TEN COMMANDMENTS.

Dr. Hey, in his Lectures in Divinity (vol. ii. p. 28., Camb. 1841), has the following remarkable statement and notes :

"In a church about thirty -five miles S.E. of Paris (Moret) are the ten Commandments in old French round the chancel. ' The second is entirely left out ; the ninth is, Give not up yourself to'the flesh, and marry but once * ; the tenth, Desire not the goods of others, and lie not at all.' I have two French Prayer-Books, in which the same in

in the Prayer-Books are,
 * " This is from the MS. travels of a friend. The lines

' L'oeuvre de chair ne desireras Q'en mariage seulenient.' "

substance is in French verse, but neither of them contains a regular decalogue, though one is large, and contains all the three creeds." *

On this I wish to found some Queries.

1. Is this version of the Commandments still to be found at the place mentioned ?

2. What are the two Prayer-Books mentioned in the text ? Are they two, or two copies of the Livre d'Eglise. . . . de Reims, mentioned in the note? And what is this Livre cCEglise. . . . de Reims ?

3. Is Dr. Key's statement correct? It does not appear to me that the ninth Commandment in the Prayer-Books, as given, is the same in sub- stance with the ninth Commandment, quoted in the MS. travels of Dr. Key's friend. Can he have confused (fen mariage seulement with un mariage seul ? Or how is the discrepancy to be reconciled ? ANON.

H1GGINBOTTOM FAMILY.

Can you, or any of your kind contributors, supply me with information respecting the Hig- ginbottom family ?

I have made inquiries in many places, but perhaps not in the best ; and I gather that origi- nally they came from Germany, and settled about Hayfield or Glossop, in Derbyshire, being pro- bably connected with the production or manu- facture of woollen cloths, as the district I have mentioned is noted for sheep farming. Tradition gives the family a character of importance before or about the time of the Commonwealth, and of comparative insignificancy afterwards.

Robson's Heraldry gives the arms, " Ar. a rose gu., barbed vert, seeded or. Crest, a dexter and sinister arm discharging an arrow from a bow."

Edmondson gives Higginson, " Or, on a fesse sa. a tower of the field. Crest, a tower."

The family appears to have spread along the neighbouring hills of Yorkshire (there was a clergyman many years ago at Saddleworth, rather notorious, but not for piety, and who was probably that parson " who could read in no book but his own ") to Oldham, Ashton-under-Lyne, and Man- chester. As wool would not support all of them, they began to manufacture skins, and in or about 1700 there was a tanner of the name at Alt Hill.

The name is no doubt German, and I have seen canting arms of the bow and arrow and an oak tree.

Sir E. B. Lytton, in My Novel, alludes to the name as being originally "Higges;" but the pas- sage is merely jocular.

Hickur in the Lancashire dialect is the rowan or mountain ash.

I see The Times in a leader on Covent Garden


 * " Livre d'Eglise

de Reims.'