Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 113, December 27, 1851: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.Various
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Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 113, December 27, 1851: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
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_360. Family of Butts._--A very great favour would be conferred, if any
of your antiquarian correspondents would give me information respecting
the family of Butts of Thornage, co. Norfolk, of which were Sir William
Butts, physician to Hen. VIII.; and Robert Butts, Bishop of Norwich, and
afterwards of Ely. The principal object of the querist is to know
whether this family sprang from that of But, Butte, or Butts, which
attained great civic eminence in Norwich during the thirteenth and two
following centuries.
COWGILL.
_361. Greek Names of Fishes._--Can any of your learned correspondents
inform me upon what authority the Greek names of fishes occurring in the
following verses from the _Vespæ_, 493, are translated "sprats" and
"mackerel?" I have only Donnegan's very unsatisfactory compilation here.
"ἢν μὲν ὠνῆταί τις ὀρφῶς, μεμβράδας δὲ μὴ θέλῃ,
εὐθέως εἴρηχ' ὁ πωλῶν πλησίον τὰς μεμβράδας·
οὗτος ὀψωνεῖν ἔοιχ' ἄνθρωπος ἐπὶ τυραννίδι," &c.
NICÆENSIS.
_362. Drimmnitavichillichatan._--Some twenty or thirty years ago there
used to appear regularly in the _Aberdeen_ and _Belfast Almanack's_ list
of fairs, one held annually at the above place in the month of May.
Could any correspondent inform me where it is situated? I think it is in
Argyle or Inverness-shires; but should like to know the precise
locality, as it is not mentioned in any work to which I have access at
present.
X.Y.Z.
_363. Chalk-back Day._--At Diss, Norfolk, it is customary for the
juvenile populace, on the Thursday before the third Friday in September
(on which latter day a fair and "session" for hiring servants are held),
to mark and disfigure each other's dress with white chalk, pleading a
prescriptive right to be mischievous on "chalk-back day." Does such a
practice exist elsewhere, and what is its origin?
S. W. RIX.
Beccles.
364. _Moravian Hymns._--Can any of your readers give me an account of
the earlier editions of the Moravian hymns? In the _Oxford Magazine_ for
July, 1769, some extraordinary specimens are given, which profess to be
taken from "a book of private devotions, printed for the use of the
Unitas Fratrum, or Moravians." One of them is--
"To you, ye wounds, we pay
A thousand tears a-day,
That you have us presented
With many happy virgin rows.
Since the year forty,
Pappa! mamma!
Your hearts Flamlein,
Brother Flamlein,
Gives the creatures
Virgin hearts and features."
The others look still more like burlesque. I cannot find them in any
Moravian hymn-book which I have seen; and have searched the British
Museum in vain for that which is referred to in the _Oxford Magazine_.
Are they genuine, or a fabrication of Anti-moravians?
P. H.
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