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 9F“S- VL 091'-5»1m|3-l NOTES AND QUERIES. 275 for native children in that place, which was established by the resident merchants of the Hon. East India Company in 1717. Later on he went to Tranquebar, the headquarters of the Evangelical Lutheran Mission estab- lished (by hristian IV. of Denmark, and was baptxz there. Some of these missionaries were employed by the S.P.C. K. to carry on mission work in Madras, Tanjore, Trichin- opoly, Cuddalore, and other places, from 1728 to 1826. Man of their names were and are well known in England, such as Schwartz, Kohlhoif, Fabricius, Gerecke ; and their work was well known, too, by supporters of the S.P:C.K. Perhaps this connexion with the society will account for the interest taken in the mission by Selina, Countess of Huntingdon, and for her acceptance of the gift of a drawing of the first Lutheran native minister from the Lutheran clergyman men- tioned. M r. Seigenhagen was nota missionary himself. FRANK PENNY, LL.M., Garrison Chaplain. Fort St. George. “MARG1owLE'r” (9*" S. vi. 209).-I do not know of its acpglfcation to a moth ; but Cot- Erave has “ t /want, an owle, or Madge- owlet,” av. ‘Chat.’ The name has been transferred from the owl. Cf. magot-pie, magpfie, and the Scotch maggy momlfeet, a centipede, all with reference to Margaret. And there is an owl-moth (‘ Century Dict.’). WALTER W. SKEAT. In West Cornwall a large night moth is commonly known as maggyowler and madgy- owlefr, and is no doubt the same word as madge-hmvlet given by Cotgrave. This solemn-looking insect is not unlike a tiny owl. YGREC. TRERLE CHRISTIAN N .mas (9"‘ S. vi. 49, 219).-Thomigh not so early as the instance given by R. G. D. LUMB, the following inscription on a tomb (rapidly falling into decay) in the yard on the south side of Totnes Church, Devon, is worth recording: “Sacred to the memory of George Frederick J ans Jones Brian, B.A., formerly of Worcester College, Oxford, and late of this Parish, obiit 11 January, 1850, aetat. 30.” Even more curious is the following entry in the register book of Chester Cathedral: “ Anna Maria Matilda Sophia Georgina Cin- derella, daughter of Henry Cotgreve, Boot- maker, and Mary Ann his wife. from the Abbey Buildings, baptized 24 Feb., l870.” This girl was bapgizal by the Rev. Edward Leathes Young* eacle, then the popular precentor Of C ester Cathedral, and subse- quently rector of Northenden, Cheshire, and vicar of Messin, Essex. I remember Anna Maria well as a domestic servant in a family known to me in Chester. 8 T. CANN HUGHES, M.A. Lancaster. V1R'rUEs AND VICES (9"*‘ S. v. 289, 443; vi. 136, 217).-There are examples in the match- less cathedral at Chartres. There “les Vertus et les Vices n’étaient pas annoncés »ar des animaux plus ou moins chimériques, mais bien ar de figures humaines. En explorant avec soin il) dénicha, sur des piliers de la bane du milieu, des péchés incarnés en de minuscules groupee: la luxure notée par une femme qui caresse un jeune homme; l’ivrognerie par un manant qui s’apprete it soufileter un évéque; la discorde par un mari qui se querelle avec sa femme, tandis que gisent auprés d’eux une quenouille brisée et une bouteille vide ..... . En fait de bétes divines, il distinguait dans la série des Vertus des femmes qu’accotaient des animaux symboliques: la Docilité accomgagnée par un boeuf ; la Chasteté par un phénix ; la C arité par un brebis ; la Douceur par un agnel; la Force par un lion; la Temperance par un chameau. Pourquoi le phénix signifie-t-il, ici, la Chasteté, car il nest générale- ment pas chargé de cet emploi par les Vo ucraires du Moyen Age?"-Huysmans’s ‘La Cathédrale,’ pp. 449, 450. I should answer the qgiestion by saying that as the phoenix was fa led to be ever sole it was not an inapt emblem of chastity. It was in comparatively modern times that the poet told how the Phoenix and the turtle fled ln a mutual flame. But even then theirs was “ married chastity.” Virtues and vices are figured also among the sculptures that enrich the south porch at Chartres (p. 465). They are often represented, says the author of ‘Animal Symbolism in Ecclesiastical Architecture,’ “by women contending for victory, and bearing shields on which are inscribed their names or em- blems, as, for examdple, the twelve virtues and twelve vices in the cathe ral at Amxens; sometimes they are riding on animals, as in the miniatures of a manuscriplt in the Musée de Cluny dating from the fourteent century.”-P. 153. The treatment is interesting ; but it is that of the painter, and not of the sculptor, so I will not continue the qxuotation. _ ‘The Devil and the lces’ are the subjhect of a wholly inadequate chapter 1D Ir. Wi1dridge’s ‘The Grotesque in Church Art,’ pp. 80-98. It has many i lustrations. ST. SWITHIN. S1x'rEENTH-CENTURY TERMS (9“' S. vi. 188).-I have heard the term “outshelled ” or “ out-shelled ” applied by a Devonshire farmer to a beam with a curved face from which the bark had been scaled, leaving all the natural