Notes and Queries, Number 229, March 18, 1854: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.Various
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Notes and Queries, Number 229, March 18, 1854: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
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It is by no means improbable that the name is a corruption of
_Longvillers_, found in Northamptonshire as early as the reign of Edward
I., and derived, I imagine, from the town of Longueville in Normandy. There
is a Newton Longville in this county.
W. P. STORER.
Olney, Bucks.
_Canting Arms_ (Vol. ix., p. 146.).--The introduction to the collection of
arms alluded to was _not_ written by Sir George Naylor, but by the Rev.
James Dallaway, who had previously published his _Historical Enquiries_, a
work well known.
G.
_Holy Loaf Money_ (Vol. ix., p. 150.).--At some time before the date of
present rubrics, it was the custom for every house in the parish to provide
in rotation bread (and wine) for the Holy Communion. By the first book of
King Edward VI., this duty was devolved upon those who had the cure of
souls, with a provision "that the parishioners of every parish should offer
every Sunday, at the time of the offertory, _the just value and price of
the holy loaf_ ... to the use of the pastors and curates" who had provided
it; "and that in such order and course as they were wont to find, and pay
the said holy loaf." This is, I think, the correct answer to the Query of
T. J. W.
J. H. B.
"_Could we with ink_," _&c._ (Vol. viii., pp. 127. 180.).--The idea
embodied in these lines was well known in the seventeenth century. The
following "rhyme," extracted from a rare miscellany entitled _Wits
Recreations_, 12mo., 1640, has reference to the subject.
"_Interrogativa Cantilena._
"If all the world were paper,
And all the sea were inke;
If all the trees were bread and cheese,
How should we do for drinke?
"If all the world were sand'o,
Oh then what should we lack'o;
If as they say there were no clay,
How should we take tobacco?
"If all our vessels ran'a,
If none but had a crack'a;
If Spanish apes eat all the grapes,
How should we do for sack'a?
"If fryers had no bald pates,
Nor nuns had no dark cloysters;
If all the seas were beans and pease,
How should we do for oysters?
"If there had been no projects,
Nor none that did great wrongs;
If fiddlers shall turne players all,
How should we doe for songs?
"If all things were eternall,
And nothing their end bringing;
If this should be, then how should we
Here make an end of singing?"
EDWARD F. RIMBAULT.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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