Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 104, October 25, 1851: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.Various
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Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 104, October 25, 1851: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
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_Harris, Painter in Water Colours_ (Vol. iii., p. 329.).--In answer to
the inquiry of T. C. W., relative to a Bible (Reeves, 1802) in the
possession of his friend, I beg leave to state that the said Bible was
illustrated with original drawings by my father, J. Harris of Walworth,
who died seventeen years since, and that I am his only son surviving him
in his profession. Any further communication relative to him I shall be
most happy to give on a personal interview.
J. HARRIS.
40. Sidmouth Street. Regent Square, Sept. 27. 1851.
"_Son of the Morning_" (Vol. iv., p. 209.).--AN OLD BENGAL CIVILIAN is
informed that, no matter whom Byron may have intended to designate by
the above glorious appellation, there is but ONE to whom it properly
belongs. If your correspondent will consult the 110th Psalm, he will
find David representing God the Father as thus addressing God the Son,
the Lord Jesus Christ: "The dew of Thy birth is of the _womb of the
morning_."
G. L. S.
Pemb. Coll. Oxon., Sept. 20. 1851.
This seems to be an invocation to the personification of Light, Lucifer,
or φωσφορος, the "son of the morning," by which intellectual
light is indicated, through whose assistance we are enabled to discover
the true faith.
The poet enters a caveat that the latter do not act the part of an
Iconoclast, as has too often been her wont. At least this appears to me
to be the interpretation.
E. I. U. S. Club.
_Grimsdyke or Grimesditch_ (Vol. iv., p. 192.).--Your Querist NAUTICUS
describes the vallum or ditch called "Grimsdyke, or Grimesditch, or the
Devil's Ditch," running from Great Berkhampstead, Hants, to Bradenham,
Bucks, and then puts two Queries.
NAUTICUS assumes that this ditch had, at some distant day, been an
artificial earthwork; but at the same time he points out that, "from its
total want of flank defence, it could hardly hold an enemy in check for
long; and that it does not seem to have been a military way." He asks,
"Are there other earthworks of the same name (Grimsdyke) in England?" I
find no trace of any other _earthworks_ of that name in England; and it
may be very questionable whether this ditch be of ancient earthwork, or
of its original natural formation.
But there is, in _Cheshire_, a brook or rivulet in its pristine state,
called _Grimsditch_. This brook or rivulet is one of the contributory
streams of Cheshire to the great rivers, the Mersey and the Weaver; and
is described by the author of _King's Vale Royal of England, or the
County Palatine of Chester illustrated_, published in 1656, as follows:
"The Grimsditch cometh from the Hall of Grimsditch, by Preston,
Daresbury, Keckwith, and so falleth into the Marsey."
Here then we have the name of a place which gives the name of
_Grimsditch_ to the brook or rivulet; and it is, moreover, shown by the
County History that the place (the hamlet or lands of Grimsditch) has
been in the possession of a family of the name of Grimsditch from the
time of Henry III.
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