Notes and Queries, Number 59, December 14, 1850Various
History
Notes and Queries, Number 59, December 14, 1850
Various
Questions and answers -- Periodicals
_The Koenigs-stuhl at Rheuze_ (Vol. ii., p. 442.).--DR. BELL, who inquires
for an engraving of the old _Koenigs_ or _Kaisers-stuhl_, at Rheuze, is
referrred to the _History of Germany, on the Plan of Mrs. Markham's
Histories_, published by Murray, where, on the 188th page, he will find a
very neat woodcut of this building, which we are told was destroyed in
1807, and rebuilt after the original model in 1843. It is of an octagon
form, supported by pillars, with seven stone seats round the sides for the
electors, and one in the centre for the emperor.
M.H.G.
[The woodcuts of this work deserve especial commendation, being
accurate representations of objects of historical interest, instead of
the imaginative illustrations too often introduced into works which
claim to represent the truth of history. Many of the engravings, such
as that of the _room in which the Council of Constance was held_, and
the _Cages of the Anabaptists_ attached to the tower of _St. Lambert's
Church, Munster_, are, we have understood, copied from original
sketches placed at Mr. Murray's disposal for the purpose of being used
in the work in question.]
_Mrs. Tempest_ (Vol. ii., p. 407.).--This lady was one of the two daughters
of Henry Tempest, Esq., of Newton Grange, Yorkshire (son of Sir John
Tempest of Tong Hall, who was created a baronet in 1664), by his wife
Alathea, daughter of Sir Henry Thompson of Marston, co. York. She died
unmarried in 1703. As the Daphne of Pope's pastoral "Winter," inscribed to
her memory, she is celebrated in terms which scarcely bear out the remark
of your correspondent, that the poet "has no special allusion to her."
J.T. HAMMACK.
_Calendar of Sundays in Greek and Romish Churches._--In reply to M.'s
Query, I beg to inform him, that to find a calendar of _both_ the above
churches, he need seek no further than the _Almanach de Gotha_ for the year
1851. He will there find what he wants, on authority no doubt sufficient.
D.C.
_The Conquest_ (Vol. ii., p. 440).--I do not agree with L. in thinking that
the modern notion, that this word means "a forcible method of acquisition,"
is an erroneous one; but have no doubt that, whatever its original
derivation may be, it was used in that sense. If William I. never pretended
"to annex the idea of victory to conquisition," it is certain that his son
William II. did: for we find a charter of his in the _Monasticon_ (ed.
1846), vol. vi. p. 992., confirming a grant of the church of St. Mary of
Andover to the abbey of St. Florence, at Salmur, in Anjou, in which there
is the following recital:
"Noscant qui sunt et qui futuri sunt, quod Willielmus
rex, qui _armis Anglicam terram sibi subjugavit_,
dedit." &c.
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