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NOTES AND QUERIES. [9 th s. XIL SEPT. 5, 1903.

arch is a large box-pew, for whose occupants it would have been a convenience, or rather for the occupants of benches on the same site, the pew probably not antedating a monument above to Hallett of Barbadoes of 1733, &c.

In Lydford Church, which appears to be early Perpendicular, though I was told by the verger that a church had stood on the spot in the seventh century, and that the font (a plain truncated cone) was of that period, there is a very curiously constructed hagioscope. I could not learn whether it was contemporary with the wall it pierces, but should imagine it to be an afterthought, as, on the chancel side, it debouches in the splayed embrasure of a window very close to the glass, while the winding stone stair of a quondam rood-loft forms its top and one side. Among the rubble with which it had been stopped were found in recent years frag- ments of some robed effigy in alabaster. It is directed obliquely towards the south aisle (or transept?). In South Taw ton Church (Perpendicular) the walls dividing part of the chancel from the Wyke Chapel on the north and the Burgoyne Chapel on the south were pierced by two hagioscopes, that on the south side being of peculiar "double" construction, inasmuch as the lines of vision through it cross each other at right angles in the middle. Thus the high altar could be seen from the Burgoyne Chapel, while an altar in that chapel, testified to by a piscina near its south-east corner, was visible, I take it, from the front seats of the nave. The other hagioscope only gave a view from the Wyke Chapel of the high altar. These chapels were, however, additions to the main structure, and there are evidences of an alteration and per- haps extension of the chancel. The hagio- scopes have been stopped up during the works of addition and embellishment recently carried out under Mr. George Fellowes Prynne. As to the screens or panels which, as described in Parker, were features of some hagioscopes, it has been explained to me that these were made to open and shut, so that they need not obstruct the view during service. ETHEL LEGA-WEEKES.

MARY, QUEEN OP SCOTS (9 th S. xii. 148). When F. S. E. writes of u Margaret, Queen of Scotland," to whom does he refer? To Margaret, sister of Edgar Atheling, wife of Malcolm III. and mother of three successive kings of Scots? or Margaret, daughter of Henry III. of England, wife of Alexander III. ? or Margaret, " the Maid of Norway," grand- daughter of Alexander III.? or Margaret

Drummond of Logie, second wife of David II. ? or Margaret, daughter of Christian I. of Denmark, wife of James III. ? or Margaret, daughter of Henry VII. of England, wife of James IV. ? Of these six, only the ill-starred Maid of Norway was Queen of Scots by right of succession. None of them is rightly styled Queen of Scotland. With one excep- tion, that of James III., all the Scottish monarchs from David I. (1124-53) down to the union of the crowns of England and Scotland in 1603 are styled on their coinage and in their charters Hex or Kegina Scot- torum King or Queen of Scots.

The exception of James III. is a remark- able one. Du Cange, in his * Traite His- torique du Chef de Saint Jean Baptiste ' (1665), states that this king presented a medal in 1477 to the shrine of St. John at Amiens bearing the legend " Moneta nova Jacobi tertii Dei gratia regis Scocie." Pinker- ton says this medal was lost during the first French Revolution. In spite of this, and in spite of James III. having ordered the double tressure round the arms of Scotland to be discontinued, his charters were drawn in the name of "Jacobus D.g. Rex Scot- torum." HERBERT MAXWELL.

" A FLEA IN THE EAR " (9 th S. xii. 67, 138).

In German exists the corresponding phrase 4 'einem einen Floh ins Ohr setzen," but only in the sense of saying something which creates agitation in the hearer's mind, and is mostly meant to do that, so that the words uttered fester in the victim's soul, and are ruminated on a long time after they have been taken in. G. KRUEGER.

Berlin.

"To DIVE" (9 th S. xi. 230, 514). The sub- joined is from Besant's ' London in the Eighteenth Century,' p. 292 :

" For those who dined at the tavern or a cook- shop, the facilities and the choice were great in number and various in quality. A young man in the early days of the century could 'dive,' that is, take his food in a mixed company of footmen out of place, chairmen, and so forth, for threepence- halfpenny."

I would explain this by the particular mean- ing of " to plunge a fork into a large pot," &c., having become generalized into that of dining very cheaply. On that assumption, "diving into a cellar" may involve another^ idea, and a confusing one. H. P. L.

" ACCORDER " (9 th S. xii. 89, 137). EMERITUS is probably right in taking this word to be a corruption of the Persian ndkhuda (=Gr. naukrator), a shipmaster ; but in his reference to Yule and Burnell he has omitted to note