Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 103, October 18, 1851: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. — John Shaqi
Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 103, October 18, 1851: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.Various
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Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 103, October 18, 1851: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
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Questions and answers -- Periodicals
J. MT.
_The Leman Baronetcy_ (Vol. iv., pp. 58. 111.).--The attempt in
_Scotland_ to give a right to an _English_ title of honour is exposed
fully in Mr. Turnbull's _Anglo-Scotia Baronets_, Edin. 1846, P. XXXII.
iii. The "certified court proceedings" are worth nothing, and would not
be sustained in a court of law. The party called _Sir_ Edward Godfrey
Leman may or may not be the next heir of the Lord Mayor, but he must
prove his right in England by such evidence as may be required there,
and not by reference to what would not even be looked at in the Scotish
law courts.
J. MT.
_Cachecope Bell_ (Vol. iii., p. 407.).--Is it possible that this word
may be a corruption of the low Latin "Catascopus" (Gr. κατάσκοπος),
and that it was applied to a bell which a watchman tolled to give
an alarm of fire, &c.? I have seen a bell set apart for this
duty, in churches on the continent.
C. P. PH***.
May not this have been a bell specially rung at funerals, and deriving
its name (as has been suggested to me) from _cache corps_, "cover the
body" (in the ground)? And why not, since we have got "curfew" out of
_couvre feu_, "cover the fire?"
A. G.
Ecclesfield.
[E. V. has suggested a similar explanation of this term.]
"_Dieu et mon Droit_" (Vol. iii., p. 407.).--In Bishop Nicolson's
_English Historical Library_, part iii. chap. i., under the section
treating of _Charters_ appears the following paragraph:
"The same king (Edward III.), as founder of the most noble order
of Knights of the Garter, had his arms sometimes encircled with
their motto of 'Honi soit,' &c., that of 'Dieu et mon Droit'
having formerly been assumed by Richard the First, intimating that
the Kings of England hold their empire from God alone. But
_neither of those_ ever appeared on the Broad Seal, before the
days of Henry the Eighth."
FRANCISCUS.
_Defoe's House at Stoke Newington_ (Vol. iv., p. 256.).--This house is
the one which was occupied by the late William Frend, M.A., of the Rock
Life Office, and which now belongs to his widow. It is on the south side
of Church Street, a little to the east of Lordship Lane or Road, and has
about four acres of ground attached, bounded on the west by a narrow
footway, once (if not still) called Cutthroat Lane. Or it may be
identified thus: take the map of Stoke Newington in Robinson's history
of that place, London, 1820, 8vo., and look directly below the first "e"
in "Church Street." Among the papers by which the house is held is the
copy of the enrolment of a surrender to the lord of manor, dated
February 26, 1740, in which the house is described as "heretofore in the
tenure or occupation of Daniel Defoe." The history just mentioned stated
that he was living at Newington in 1709. There appears no reason to
suppose that he built the house. Dr. Price lived for some years in it,
as the domestic chaplain of a subsequent owner.
M.
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