Notes and Queries, Number 240, June 3, 1854: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. — John Shaqi
Notes and Queries, Number 240, June 3, 1854: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.Various
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Notes and Queries, Number 240, June 3, 1854: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
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_Chapel Sunday_ (Vol. vii., p. 527.).--Not having received an answer to my
Query of the origin of the celebration of Chapel Sunday in the Lake
district, I would venture a surmise which some Cumbrian antiquary will
perhaps correct, if wrong. I take it to be the day in honour of the patron
saint of the chapel: and now, when such festivals are little observed, it
has been changed to the nearest Sunday. In this thinly populated district,
and where, from its mountainous and rugged character, travelling before the
formation of the present good roads was neither agreeable nor (probably)
safe, "at chapel" was the only time many of the inhabitants saw each other.
Meeting, therefore, on so auspicious a day as that of the patron saint,
might in "merrie time" of old induce a little festivity.
PRESTONIENSIS.
_Bishop Inglis of Nova Scotia_ (Vol. vii., p. 263.).--According to a short
biography in the _Documentary History of New York_, vol. iii. p. 1066.,
this prelate was born A.D. 1734. His birth-place is not mentioned. Some
letters and other writings by him may be found in the fourth volume of the
same work.
UNEDA.
Philadelphia.
_Gutta Percha made soluble_ (Vol. ix., p. 350.).--E. B. can procure at any
chemist's establishment a solution of gutta percha in chloroform, which may
answer the purpose required by him. It is used by medical men as a dressing
for abrasion in the skin of bed-ridden persons, and is applied with a
camel's-hair brush. It hardens on being applied, and produces an artificial
skin, which saves the patient from farther suffering in the place to which
it has been applied.
EXPERTO CREDE.
Naphtha will render gutta percha soluble; and if needed to be used as a
varnish, it is only necessary to make a solution in a closed vessel, and
apply it with a brush. The naphtha will evaporate and leave a thin coating
of firmly-adhering gutta percha behind.
SHIRLEY HIBBERD.
_Impe_ (Vol. viii., pp. 443. 623.).--This epithet has been much discussed,
but I think that no reference has been made to the following remarkable
instances of its application.
In the Beauchamp Chapel at St. Mary's Warwick is the altar-tomb and effigy
of the infant son of Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, with a long
inscription, which begins:
"Heere resteth the body of the noble impe Robert of Dudley, Baronet of
Denbigh, sonne of Robert, Erle of Leycester, nephew and heire unto
Ambrose, Erle of Warwike."
In a letter from Edinburgh, dated 5th November, 1578, John Aleyn to the
Bishop of Carlisle, writes of "the goodly young Imp their King," who was
afterwards our James I.; and the Earl of Shrewsbury in 1585 writes of "my
wife and her imps," the lady being his energetic Countess Elizabeth
Hardwick, widow of Sir William Cavendish. (See Lodge's _Illustrations of
British History_, vol. ii. pp. 135. 275.)
R. A.
Melford.
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