Notes and Queries, Number 171, February 5, 1853: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. — John Shaqi
Notes and Queries, Number 171, February 5, 1853: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.Various
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Notes and Queries, Number 171, February 5, 1853: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
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Questions and answers -- Periodicals
_Lost MS. by Alexander Pennecuik._--In the Advocates' Library, Edinburgh,
is preserved a MS. in 4to., called _The whole Works of Alexander Pennecuik,
Gent._, vol. ii. It commences at p. 215. Upon the boards is written
"Edinburgh, January 1759. Ex dono viduæ J. Graham, Bibliopegi, cum altero
volumine." It is not known in what way the Faculty of Advocates became
possessed of this volume. Query, Where is the first?
EDWARD F. RIMBAULT.
"_The Percy Anecdotes._"--Who were the compilers of this excellent
collection, published about thirty years ago?
UNEDA.
_Norman Song._--In the year 1198 there was a song current in Normandy,
which ran that the arrow was being made in Limousin by which Richard Coeur
de Lion was to be slain. Can any of the readers of "N. & Q." inform me
where the ballad is to be found, or if MS., give me a copy?
R. L.
_God's Marks._--In Roper's _Life of More_ there is an account of Margaret
Roper's recovery from an attack of the sweating sickness. The belief of the
writer was, that the recovery was miraculous; and to enforce that opinion
he asserts, that the patient did not begin to recover until after "God's
marks (an evident undoubted token of death) plainly appeared upon her."
(Roper's _More_, p. 29., Singer's edition.) Pray what is meant by "God's
marks?"
JOHN BRUCE.
_The Bronze Statue of Charles I., Charing Cross._--What is known of the
life and history of John Rivers[4], to whose loyalty the good people of
London are now indebted for the preservation of this bust, which the
Parliament in the time of Cromwell had ordered to be destroyed? That he was
a brazier, and a handy workman, is all that I know of him.
W. W.
Malta.
[Footnote 4: [John _Rivett_, a brazier living at the Dial, near Holborn
Conduit. See Walpole's _Anecdotes of Painting_ vol. ii. p. 319.--ED.]]
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Minor Queries with Answers.
_Hutter's Polyglott._--Can any one inform me whether the following work was
ever completed, or give me any particulars respecting it? _Biblia Sacra,
Ebraice, Chaldaice, Græce, Latine, Germanice, Saxonice; Studio et Labore_
Eliæ Hutteri, Germani, Noribergæ, 1599. Of this work I have the first
volume--a splendid book, which recently came from abroad; but I cannot hear
of the other volumes: this includes the Pentateuch. A reply to this Query
will be thankfully received.
B. H. C.
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