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 9"- 8. IV. Oct. 21, '99.] 325 NOTES AND QUERIES. other subjects, is reported to have written "some works on freemasonry," certainly an error, as he was a Roman Catholic priest, and the books therefore could not have emanated from his pen. They were, in fact, the pro- duction of another antiquary of the same name, a Church of England clergyman, and a comparative catalogue of their respective works will be found in the Transactions of the Devonshire Association, xvii. 266-76. 2. Thomas Hughes, of 'Tom Brown' cele- brity, is credited with the authorship of works on Chester antiquities, whereas they should be attributed to another well-known anti- quary residing in, and the author of several works relating to, that city, in addition to being the editor of the first series of the ' Cheshire Sheaf.' T. N. Brushfield, M.D., F.S.A. Salterton, Devon. A Hebraic Enigma.—I extract the sub- joined passage from Father Prout's writings, p. 309, and invite those of your readers who care for literary puzzles to con it over :— "Hebrew is dead, and no mistake! The Wander- ing Jew must have found that out long since. We venture to affirm that Salathiel (who, according to Croly, lurks about the synagogue in St. Alban's Place) has often laughed at the ghevas of our modern Rabbim, and at those pothooks' with points' which are hawked about as copies of the original Hebrew Scriptures." To me it is, refined or unrefined, balderdash. Prout is better when he tells us further on that some one " turned ' Old King Cole' into Hebrew," which was done, of course, to—a cinder. The above is no mean specimen of the pseudo-scholarship which " took " in the days when Brougham declared " the schoolmaster was abroad." M. L. Breslar. Carminow.—Probably for political ends, the blood relationship of many of the chief nobility to King Henry VII. was explained by a herald in 1505 (Harl. 1074, Collect. Top. et Geneal., vol. i.), and relying, I imagine, on tradition only, he stopped snort of establishing the connexion. Polwhele (' Hist, of Cornw.') gravely repeats that Sir Oliver Carminow was Chamberlain to King Richard II. and married his half-sister Eliza- beth Holland, and that the pair were " buried in the Friars' Church, Bodmin, she with a coronet and he with his legs crossed." The Carminows bore what, on evidence, should be accounted the oldest arms in England, the coveted Azure, a bend or, made famous by the Scrope and Grosvenor controversy, in which John of Gaunt deposed that Car- minow had maintained his right to the arms by challenging Scrope under the walls of Paris, and declaring that his ancestor had borne them when acting as ambassador from King Arthur to the Court of France. Still more astounding was the tradition that a Carminow had led a body of troops to oppose the landing of Julius Caesar (Ezra Cleaveland,' Hist, of the Courtenays,' p. 240). The herald gives the marriage of Sir Oliver Carminow with Isolda Ferrers, grand- daughter of the great Cornish heiress Isolda de Cardinan, who, in surrendering some lands to the Crown, described them as Free as when Richard, King of the Romans (son of King John), gave them " to Andrew my father in marriage with Ela my mother," who, as Richard Plantagenet's daughter, would supply the missing link. Stothard the antiquary (first husband of Mrs. Bray the novelist) was killed by falling from a ladder while engaged in tracing the arms of Carminow in Bere Ferrers Church. H. H. Drake. Pattens. (See 9th S. i. 44, 336, 413, 471; ii. 95, 235, 334, 432, 494, 535.)--This subject having been lately noticed in ' N. & Q.,' it may be interesting to record that on the carved door of Walpole St. Peter's, near Wis- bech, still hangs a board stating: " People who enter this church are requested to take off their pattens." A. F. " Humpty-dumpty."—Dr. Murray quotes in the ' H.E.D.' the well-known nursery rime of which " Humpty-Dumpty " is the beginning. It may not be out of place therefore to record in ' N. & Q.' the following parody, which was very popular in the days immediately suc- ceeding the repeal of the Corn Laws :— Humpty-Dumpty sat on a wall, Humpty-Dumpty had a great fall; All the dukes' horses and all the dukes' men Can't lift Humpty-Dumpty up again. Edward Peacock. [See 9th S. ii. 35.] Nicholas Grimald.—The best printed life of this well-known Elizabethan poet is in the ' D.N.B.,' but that has no allusion to the following note, which is not referred to in any other of the printed lives of this voluminous writer. I transcribed it from the Tanner MSS. 106, 43, fol, in the Bodleian Library, Oxford :— " Acceptance of Stipend for Lectures by Nicholas Grimald by Subdean Sydall.—Treasury, 3° October, An" D. 1550. I received of the Treasurer xxxiij iiij (allocatur. S.), allowed for the stypend of my Lecture due att the feast of S. Mychael last past, by the hands of Mr Syddall, subdean. And also vl as a reward to helpeme att my necessyte by Mr Dean's goodness apon considertyons movying nym.