Notes and Queries, Number 24, April 13, 1850 — John Shaqi
Notes and Queries, Number 24, April 13, 1850Various
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Notes and Queries, Number 24, April 13, 1850
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_Toom Shawn Cattie_.--I find these words (Gaelic, I believe, from
_Tom John Gattie_) in an old Diary, followed by certain hieroglyphics,
wherewith I was wont to express "_recommended for perusal_." I have
lost all trace of the recommender, and have hunted in vain through
many a circulating library list for the name, which I believe to
be that of some book or song illustrating the domestic life of our
Western Highlanders. Can any of your readers assist me in deciphering
my own note?
MELANION.
_Love's Last Shift_.--In the first edition of Peignot's _Manuel du
Biblioplide_, published in 1800, the title of Congreve's "Mourning
Bride" is rendered "L'Epouse du Matin." Can any of your readers inform
me whether it is in the same work that the title of "Love's Last
Shift" is translated by "Le dernier Chemise de l'Amour?" if not, in
what other book is it?
H.C. DE ST. CROIX.
_Cheshire-round_.--"W.P.A." asks the meaning of the above phrase, and
where it is described.
_Why is an Earwig called a "Coach-bell?"_--Your correspondents,
although both kind and learned, do not appear to have given any
satisfactory answer to my former query--why a lady-bird is called
Bishop Barnaby? Probably there will be less difficulty in answering
another entomological question--Why do the country-people in the south
of Scotland call an earwig a "coach-bell?" The name "earwig" itself is
sufficiently puzzling, but "coach-bell" seems, if possible, still more
utterly unintelligible.
LEGOUR.
_Chrysopolis_.--Chrysopolis is the Latin name for the town of Parma,
also for that of Scutari, in Turkey. Is the etymological connection of
the two names accidental? and how did either of them come to be called
the "Golden City?"
R.M.M.
_Pimlico_.--In Aubrey's _Surrey_, he mentions that he went to
a _Pimlico_ Garden, somewhere on Bankside. Can any of your
correspondents inform me of the derivation of the word "Pimlico,"
and why that portion of land now built on near to Buckingham House,
through which the road now runs to Chelsea, is called Pimlico?
R.H.
April 1. 1850.
_Zenobia_.--I have read somewhere that Zenobia, Queen of Palmyra, was
of Jewish origin, but am now at a loss to retrace it. Could any of
your correspondents inform me where I have read it?
A. FISCHEL.
_Henry Ryder, Bishop of Killaloe_.--"W.D.R." requests information
in reference to the paternity of Henry Ryder, D.D., who was born in
Paris, and consecrated Bishop of Killaloe in 1692.
_Belvoir Castle._--In the _Harleian Miscellany_, vol. iv. p. 527., is
a Pindaric Ode upon Belvoir Castle, which Mr. Nichols reprinted in his
_History of the Hundred of Framland._ Can any of your readers inform
me who was the author of this very singular production?
T.R. Potter.
_St. Winifreda._--Can any of your readers refer me to any history or
recent discoveries relative to St. Winifreda?
B.
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