Notes and Queries, Number 192, July 2, 1853: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.Various
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Notes and Queries, Number 192, July 2, 1853: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
Various
Questions and answers -- Periodicals
PHOTOGRAPHIC CORRESPONDENCE:--Mr. Lyte's
Treatment of Positives--Stereoscopic Angles--Query
respecting Mr. Pollock's Process--Gallo-nitrate of
Silver 15
REPLIES TO MINOR QUERIES:--Verney Note
decyphered--Emblems by John Bunyan--Mr. Cobb's
Diary--"Sat cito si sat bene"--Mythe versus Myth--The
Gilbert Family--Alexander Clark--Christ's Cross--The
Rebellious Prayer--"To the Lords of Convention"--
Wooden Tombs and Effigies--Lord Clarendon and the
Tubwoman--House-marks--"Amentium haud amantium"--
The Megatherium in the British Museum--Pictorial
Proverbs--"Hurrah," and other War-cries 17
MISCELLANEOUS:--
Notes on Books, &c. 20
Books and Odd Volumes wanted 21
Notices to Correspondents 21
Advertisements 21
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Notes.
OBLATION OF A WHITE BULL.
By lease dated 28th April, 1533, the Abbat of St. Edmund's Bury demised to
John Wright, glazier, and John Anable, pewterer, of Bury, the manor of
Haberdon appurtenant to the office of Sacrist in that monastery, with four
acres in the Vynefeld, for twenty years, at the rent of 5l. 4s. to the
Sacrist; the tenants also to find a white bull every year of their term, as
often as it should happen that any gentlewoman, or any other woman, should,
out of devotion, visit the shrine of the glorious king and martyr of St.
Edmund, and wish to make the oblation of a white bull. (Dodsw. Coll. in
_Bibl. Bodl._, vol. lxxi. f. 72.)
If we are to understand a white bull of the ancient race of wild white
cattle, it may be inferred, I suppose, that in some forest in the vicinity
of Bury St. Edmund's they had not disappeared in the first half of the
sixteenth century. The wild cattle, probably indigenous to the great
Caledonian forest, seem to have become extinct in a wild state before the
time of Leland, excepting where preserved in certain ancient parks, as
Chillingham Park, Northumberland, Gisburne Park in Craven, &c., where they
were, and in the former at all events still are, maintained in their
original purity of breed. They were preserved on the lands of some abbeys;
for instance, by the Abbats of Whalley, Lancashire.
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