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 9* s.x. AUG. 9, 1902.] NOTES AND QUERIES.

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LONDON, SATURDAY. AUGUST 9, 1902.

CONTENTS. -No. 241.

NOTES : Coronation Danteiana, 101 Church of England Sixty Years Ago, 104 Premierships of Victorian Era "Reapered" Old Glasgow House, 105 Ferdinando Wellington's Spanish Prayer Book, 106" Man in the street" " Coburg" " Arising out of," 107.

QUERIES : Longfellow "Faith, Hope, and Love were questioned " Cardinal Allen Lines in Purcell. 107 School in Scotland Fox ' Caste ': Prototypes M'Quil- lans of Dunluce Pepys and Sanderson Families English- men Buried Abroad Nominal Burden, 108 Knights of the Garter Family Crests "Billy "=Tin Can ' Pur- chas his Pilgrimes,' 1625' ' Loophole "Lines on Withered Wild Flower PolygraphicrHall-Whitefield's 'Hymns': First Edition Rutter Eighteenth-Century Indexes, 109.

REPLIES : Heraldry before the Conquest References Wanted, 110 Many Religions and One Sauce Old Songs Knurr and Spell, 111 Great Frost of 1683-4 Coronation Dress of Bishops "Muffineer" Gorman, Russian Ad- miralBirmingham: "Brumagem," 112 Proverbs in 1 Jacula Prudentum ' Knighthood " Leaps and bounds " Arms of Eton and Winchester Colleges, 113 Merry England and the Mass Coleridge Governors of Public Schools "Ye gods and little fishes ! "Disappearance of Banking Firm, 114 Downie's Slaughter Schaw of Gos- petry "Corn-bote," 115 Horse with Four White Stockings Flint-Glass Trade Baxter, of Australia Chi- Rho Monogram Statistical Data King's Champion, 1 16 Alison's Rectorial Addresses Boudicca Capt. Morris's Wife, 117 The National Flag Capt. Arnold Serjeant Edward Dendy, 118.

NOTES ON BOOKS : Rouse's ' Greek Votive Offerings ' " Chiswick Shakespeare" Sladen's 'London and its Leaders ' Reviews and Magazines.

Notices to Correspondents.

CORONATION OF EDWARD VII. IT may not be supposed that a single reader of 'N. & Q.' has been misled by the notice, necessarily premature, of the Coronation of King Edward VII. which appeared in its pages. Though its principal appeal is to the present generation, the collective erudition of which it claims to some extent to incor- porate and calendar, the responsibilities of 'N. & Q.' extend to coming times, and ages yet unborn will profit by its stores. It is fitting, then, that the postponed Coronation should be duly announced, and that the prayers breathed in view of the earlier ceremony should be renewed now that the celebration is at hand. In offering afresh congratulations to a country so blessed in its recent rulers, and a monarch surrounded by such loyalty, regard, and affection as early records do not chronicle, the Editor will use, with the alteration of a single word, a line from Milton's Ode ' On the Morning of Christ's Nativity,' written two hundred and seventy- three years ago :

Have thou the honour first thy King to greet. Since our first words appeared King Edward has waged a strenuous, gallant, and in the

end successful fight against Death, who, though no respecter of persons, and glad, it might be thought, to show the equality between " sceptre and crown " and " the poor crooked scythe and spade," has for once, as it seems, sympathized with a people's aspira tions and listened to an empire's prayer. That struggle (one of the most eventful to be recalled, and fraught with highest issues) has served the purpose of cementing bonds already close, and linking together monarch and people in a way for which there is no precedent. Englishmen feel that the dominant traits of their race are exemplified in their king that endurance, resolution, and courage are the badges of both ; and that the spirit which refuses to accept defeat or surrender is common to the two. On his issue from the long struggle His Majesty knows that not only does he continue his beneficent rule over the largest empire that the world has known, but that also he is inheritor and transmitter of affection and loyalty which have been reserved to his imme- diate ancestor and her race. Once more, then, we plead for blessings upon King Edward and his Consort, and echo the words that have passed from a national sentiment into a universal prayer God save the King.

DANTEIANA. 1. 'lNF.,'xiii. 115-17.

Ed ecco duo dalla sinistra costa, Nudi e graffiatji, fuggendo si forte, Che defla selva rompieno ogni rosta.

The MS. variants of this passage are curious. Thus alia sinistra is found in two in the Bodleian, in one at Cambridge, and in one in the Vatican ; due venire delta occurs in the Bodleian L ; correndo si in Q Cam- bridge ; and ogni costa in K Bodleian. This latter reading, of course, makes rank non- sense of Dante's meaning. Its presence in the MS. (dated 1445) can only be explained by Dr. Moore's deservedly severe judgment :

" This is (with' the exception of L) incomparably the worst MS. in the Canonici collection, in respect of barbarous spelling and of the frequency and reck- lessness of its alterations."

It is just possible, however, that the careless scribe, using a palimpsest, may have sub- stituted c for r with costa fresh in eye or ear. But " coast " (or " space," as Plumptre renders it) is not " bough "or whatever may be the meaning of rosta. At all events, costa is not rosta by any philological conjuring. Though it is generally englished by " branch " or " bough," Gary takes it to signify " fan o' th' wood," and ingeniously glosses his view with: "Hence perhaps Milton