Notes and Queries, Number 63, January 11, 1851Various
History
Notes and Queries, Number 63, January 11, 1851
Various
Questions and answers -- Periodicals
_Coleridge and the Penny Post_ (Vol. iii., p. 6.).--Mr. Venables asks a
question in a way that may lead the reader to infer an answer, and an
ungenerous answer; and he calls on Mr. Hill to give him satisfaction, as if
Mr. Hill had nothing better to do than to inform Mr. Venables, and correct
Miss Martineau's blunders. If Mr. Venables had taken an active part in
bringing about the greatest moral movement of our age, he would have known
that, amongst the hundred other illustrations adduced by Mr. Hill, was the
very anecdote to which he refers; and that Mr. Hill quoted it, not once or
twice, but dozens of times, and circulated it, with Coleridge's name, over
the whole length and breadth of the three kingdoms, by tens of thousands of
printed papers. Mr. Hill has not had a tithe of the honour he deserves--and
never will have--and I cannot remain silent, and see his character
questioned, though in matters too trifling, I think, even to have occupied
a corner in "NOTES AND QUERIES."
C.W.D.
_The Autograph of Titus Oates_ (Vol. ii., p. 464.).--It may be seen in the
Library of St. John's College, Cambridge. It is written at the end of every
chapter in "_A Confession of Faith, put forth by the Elders and Brethren of
many Congregations of Christians (baptized upon profession of Faith) in
London and the Country_." 12mo. Lond. 1688.
J.R.
Cambridge.
_Circulation of the Blood_ (Vol. ii., p. 475.).--The passage in Venerable
Bede referred to by J.MN. may have been in a tract _De Minutione Sanguinis
sive de Phlebotomia_; (which occurs in the folio editions, Basle, vol. i.
p. 472.; Colon., vol. i. p. 898.). In the enumeration of the veins from
which blood may be taken, he says,--
"De brachio tres, _qui per totum corpus reddunt sanguinem_, capitanea
linea, matricia, capsale."
The subject of bleeding is again referred to in _Eccl. Hist._, vol. iii,
but not to the purpose.
J. EASTWOOD.
Ecclesfield.
_True Blue_ (Vol. ii., p. 494.).--From documents relative to the wars of
the Scottish Covenanters, in the seventeenth century, it appears that they
assumed _blue ribbons_ as their colours, and wore them as scarfs, or in
bunches fastened to their _blue bonnets_ and that the border English
nicknamed them "_blue caps_" and "jockies." Hence the phrase, "True blue
Presbyterian."
G.F.G.
_Cherubim and Seraphim._--Why are the cherubim represented as a human head,
with the wings of a bird? And why have the seraphim no bodily
representation? What, in fact, is the supposed distinction between them?
OMEGA.
[Our correspondent will find much curious information on this subject,
accompanied by some exquisite woodcuts, in Mrs. Jameson's _Poetry of
Sacred and Legendary Art_.]
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