Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 111, December 13, 1851: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.Various
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Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 111, December 13, 1851: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
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333. _Indian Jugglers._--Can any of your readers favour me with
references to any works containing an account of the trick practised by
jugglers in the East Indies, and known there by the name of "growing a
mango?" In performing this trick a seed is planted in a pot or basket of
earth, which is then covered up from the sight by a cloth or other wire;
in a little time this is removed, and the seed is seen to have
germinated, and its growth is similarly shown in successive stages, the
last of which exhibits the plant in fruit. Hundreds of Europeans have
seen the trick, but I have never heard of any one who was able to detect
the successive substitutions in which it obviously consists. I do not at
present recollect the name of any author who takes any notice of it.
N.
334. _Priory of Hertford._--The Priory of Hertford was founded by Ralph
de Limesey and his wife Hadewise, some time after the Conquest. Can any
of your antiquarian correspondents inform me in what year this took
place?
The Rev. DR. ROCK had the politeness to answer my Query respecting the
Abbot Eustacius; perhaps he could oblige me by solving the present one.
J. L.
335. _Jacobus Creusius_ (_or Crucius_).--_Jacobi Creusii Theologi et
Medici, Frisii, Victimas Humanas._ I should be greatly obliged by any
information respecting the author, or the book, which I find so
mentioned in a MS. of 1677.
S. W. RIX.
Beccles.
336. _Clekit House._--In the will of John Buttery of Bury, 1557, is this
item:
"My capitall mesuage, with the maltinge house and the tenement
called Banyards, with all the gardaines, yards, and close, to them
belonginge,--except the ij tenements called the _Clekit_ House."
What is the meaning of _Clekit_? In the E.-Anglian dialect, _clicket_ is
"to chatter." Phillips has "CLICKET, the knocker of a door, but Chaucer
uses it for a key."
BURIENSIS.
337. _Ballad on the Rising of the Vendée._--Who is the author of a
modern ballad on the Rising of the Vendée, of which the last lines are--
"We crush'd, like ripen grapes, Montreuil, we tore
down old Vetier--
We charged them with our naked breasts, and took them
with a cheer--
We'll hunt the robbers through the land, from Seine to
sparkling Rhone.
Now 'Here's a health to all we love: our King shall
have his own!'"
D. B. J.
338. _Stanza on Spenser's "Shepherd's Calender."_--In some of the early
quarto editions of Spenser, in the "Shepherd's Calender," June, there is
a stanza which in almost all the subsequent folio editions is omitted. I
shall be much obliged for any information as to when and why it was left
out; in the copies in which it appears it is the twelfth stanza, and is
as follows:--
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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