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NOTES AND QUERIES.

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hand books which offered it for sale gives that name as owned by the writer. One does not like to question the accuracy of catalogues, but I appeal to ' N". & Q.' for con- firmation, or rejection, of the assertion. The book, I remember, caused a flutter in religious circles almost equal to that previously raised by Prof. Seeley's anonymous 'Ecce Homo' in 1867. J. B. McGovERN.

[Halkett and Laing state that John Moore Capes was the author.]

ANGLO-SAXON WORDS FOR BIRDS. Is there any relationship between the italicized sylla- bles of the following Anglo-Saxon words ? Hyger&^a, magpie, kigQre = & woodpecker, Aice-mase=a wren, gcec or jac = a cuckoo. If these prefixes are variants of one root, what is the meaning of that root ?

J. H. R.

CORDERIUS. Amidst the innumerable sub- jects ventilated and illuminated in ' N. & Q.,' I do not think that the question has been asked, Who was Corderius 1 1 can remember that in country grammar schools many years ago a first book was put in our hands entitled ' The Colloquies of Corderius,' usually called ' Cordery.' The Latin was placed on one side of the pages, and the English trans- lation on the other, concealed by a slip of paper when in class.

Who was Corderius ? When did he flourish, and in what country ? for I am unable to discover anything of his history.

In 'The Antiquary,' the probable date of which is 1794, there is the following allusion to him, or rather to his ' Colloquies ':

Capt. Mclntyre loquitur : " ' I could not use your books, my dear uncle,' said the young soldier, ' that 's true ; and you will do well to provide for their being in better hands. But don't let the faults of my head fall on my heart. 1 would not part with a Cordery that belonged to an old friend, to get a set of horses like Lord Glenallan's ' " (chap, xxxix.).

JOHN PICKFORD, M.A.

[Corderius was the latinized form of the name of Mathurin Cordier (1478-1564), a native of Nor- mandy. There is a short notice of him in vol. vi. of the ninth edition of the ' Encyclopaedia Britan- nica,' and the article on Shakespeare (vol. xxi. p. 751) states that the 'Colloquies' was the most popular Latin manual in the schools of Shakespeare's day. Consult also Lowndes's ' Bibliographer's Manual,' ed. 1858, p. 523.]

CHARLES V.'s PORTRAIT. A fine woodcut portrait of Charles V., made during his lifetime, and adorning the title-page of Capella's 'Roman Chronicle,' translated by Eppendorf, which appeared at Strasburg in 1536, shows the young emperor in half-length, covered with a berretta, and wearing round

the neck a chain from which a little lamb hangs down. Could one of your heraldic correspondents state whether this figure of a lamb, hanging on a chain, symbolizes or depicts a certain distinguished order (as, for instance, that of the Golden Fleece) with which Charles V. was invested? 1 may add that this woodcut portrait, which represents the emperor's characteristic fea- tures with perfect art, is ascribed to Hans Sebald Beham, a well-known pupil of Diirer, who flourished from 1500 till 1550, and left about 300 woodcut drawings. H. KREBS.

"By GAR." "By gar" is frequently used in 'The Merry Wives of Windsor,' by Dr. Caius, the French physician, as an adjuration (for instance, Act III. sc. iii.). What is the correct derivation of "gar"? Is it right to explain it as a (corrupt) pronunciation of the word God ? INQUIRER.

[Schmidt's 'Shakespeare Lexicon' gives it rightly, we think as=By God. Dyce's * Glossary ' leaves it unmentioned.]

POCOCK OF CHIEVELEY, BERKS. Where can I find or obtain a pedigree of the Pocock family of Chieveley, Berks ? Thomas Bucke- ridge, of Basildon, in the same county, mar- ried (1608) Elizabeth, a da'ughter of John Pocock, of Bradley, in Chieveley parish ; and Dorothy, a daughter of Thomas and Eliza- beth Buckeridge, married a Mr. Pocock, whose Christian name I cannot find. Is the pedigree of Pocock referred to in Marshall's ' Index ' (from 1160, lithograph circa 1840, folio) that of the Chieveley family? There is no copy of this at the British Museum.

ARTHUR STEPHENS DYER.

28, Leamington Road Villas, W.

"PEACE, RETRENCHMENT, AND REFORM." What is the earliest recorded use of this phrase as an English party watchword? Pepys has a reference to " Reformation and Reduce- ment"; but the precise policy indicated seems to have been claimed as their own by the Whigs in the earlier decades of the nineteenth century. In a letter of Princess Lie.ven, dated "Richmond, November, 1830," it is said : " Lord Grey in his first interview [with William IV.] laid down the principles of his policy : (1) Maintenance of Peace ; (2) Economy ; (3) Moderate Parliamentary Re- form " (' Letters of Dorothea, Princess Lieven,' p. 411). POLITICIAN.

CHINESE JUNK. In Walford's ' Old and New London' (vol. iii. 290) an amusing de- scription of the vessel, by Charles Dickens, is quoted. In what book or publication did this appear ? The j unk arrived in the Thames